-=> Quoting Greg Easthom to Joe Zimmerman <=-
GE> Bruce Wilson asked:
JZ> BW> I've got WPW 5.2 on several systems at work. I was told the other
JZ> BW> day that something was wrong with one of the files and found there
JZ> BW> were a whole bunch of extraneous tabs and hard returns, which I was
JZ> BW> able to fix with a few search and replace operations. Any thoughts
JZ> BW> as to how this might've happened?
JZ> BW>
GE> Joe Zimmermann replied:
JZ> I cannot answer your question, but I can tell you that my wife gets the
JZ>same thing... She loves the "reveal codes" option of that program, which
JZ>also is why she will not leave the old Word Perfect 5.2+ and use word
0.
GE> My mother uses 5.1 and 6.0 for DOS, and has had the most trouble after
GE> using the spell-checkers. One time a 6-page paper lost the last 5
GE> pages, the first was scrambled, and the machine froze. We had to
GE> re-boot, undelete the timed backup copy, and start again. I remember
GE> reading some postings and articles that said the spell-checkers _are_
GE> the culprit.
Sorry, but I do not know what is happening. To your first comment the
Revel codes will show the tabs and returns, which are then deleted, but
the rest, I have no idea.
Regards Joe
... I smile a lot because I have no idea what's going on!
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