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echo: wperfect
to: BILL WHITE
from: BRUCE WILSON
date: 1997-03-29 08:51:00
subject: Re: Cleaning up after others

On 27 Mar 97 02:20pm, Bill White wrote to Matthew Montchalin:
 BW>   A  friend got  a 64 page  document off the InterNet.
 BW>   It was originally written using MS Word and saved in
 BW>   ASCII.  Every  line  had  3 spaces  or more  at  the
 BW>   beginning.  We had  much "fun" cleaning up that one.
 BW>   What a mess.
What you describe could've been the result of "printing" it to a
text file, which preserves the left margin and full justification
by inserting spaces (as I did to your quoted text above).  (We're
so used to using proportional fonts that we may forget how it was
done using nonproportional fonts.)
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