Rick Collins wrote in a message to Bob Sturgeon:
bs> The TXT file has a lot of high ASCII characters and has no LF/CR
bs> controls. I tried reading the files using VIEW97A and it thought
bs> the TXT file might be Wordstar but it was still garbage. 
 RC> That's strange.  .txt should be text.
For whatever reason, the .txt file has a number of high bit set characters 
embedded.  Most are spaces with the high bit set used in the tables (A0 
instead of 20) but some seem to be being used to generate special characters.
Regards,
       David
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