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echo: wperfect
to: GREG EASTHOM
from: JOE ZIMMERMAN
date: 1997-09-07 03:51:00
subject: Mysterious Corruption

 -=> 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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