-=> On 05-04-97  06:58, Mohammed El-hakim <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about MS word 6.0 problem <=-
 DS->   Today when I went to open one of my documents, MS Word 6.0 refused to
 DS->   recognize it as a Word document.  It insisted on converting it from
 DS->   ASCII text.  When it did, the top of the document was full of garbage
 DS->   of various sorts, but eventually, the document was there.
 
 DS->   Actually, it was sort of there.  What was there was a slightly older
 DS->   version that was missing a major paragraph I had typed in last night.
 DS->   Since I had printed it out -- I managed to type the paragraph in
 DS->   again.  .  Then I discovered that the copy of
 DS->   the paragraph was much further down the file after some other 
rbage.
 ME> Is it possible , that you have an unoriginal copy of Win 95 ? I had
 ME> the same problem , but I'm not sure 'bout that... If you have another
 ME> explanation please tell me ...
 I don't have any copy of WIN95.  I am running Word 6.0 under WINOS2.
 I think that the clobbered file is related to the problem I mentioned
 about seeing an error message which says that a file is missing (name
 something like MF000000.TMP) because I recall seeing that message as I
 was printing out the file the night before.  Something garbled the disk
 version of the *.DOC file, and then Word did not recognize the file as
 a Word document.
 From what I have heard, Word stores a document as an original and then
 some number of changes.  That is why the new paragraph I had typed was
 not at the beginning, but much later in the file by itself.
                             dale@ghawk.com
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