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echo: wperfect
to: BRUCE WILSON
from: HILL KAPLAN
date: 1997-04-03 08:42:00
subject: Re: cleaning up after oth

 -=> Quoting Fn:bruce Wilson@1:290/627 to Bill White <=-
 FW> 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.
 FW> What you describe could've been the result of "printing" it to a
 FW> text file, which preserves the left margin and full justification
 FW> by inserting spaces (as I did to your quoted text above).  (We're
 FW> so used to using proportional fonts that we may forget how it was
 FW> done using nonproportional fonts.)
 Why not do a SEARCH and REPLACE with CONFIRMATION.
 The replacement is of course NULL.
 These commands work in WORD PERFECT 5.1
 HILL
... "U.S.S. Wilson@1:290/627, lower your shields and prepare to be boarded
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