GG Re: Database details -- general

["Kris Shapar" <kshapar@dcez.nicom.com>]

What happens when you save the file as a generic file in Word
Perfect? That should be a straight ASCII file and should not add the
extra lines you talk about.

BTW, the characters after 120 are also known as the set of extended
ASCII characters and contain accented characters such as ü (Alt-129).

Kris Shapar

> From:          frank@clark.net
> Date:          Mon, 13 Jan 1997 18:24:05 -0500 (EST)
> To:            f-minor <f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
> Subject:       Re: Database details -- general
<snip>

> I should tell you that the first few characters tell your computer NOT to
> haul it up as a WordPerfect text, so you can't go in an edit it that way.

<snip>

> But the important thing to know is that the text is all in ASCII and there
> is none of the funny stuff Tim talked about.
> But WP uses the alt keys that are in the first 31 hexadecimal keys, which
> are non-printing instructions. Unfortunately I at length found out that I
> used one of these. When I uploaded my files to my UNIX account, it got
> garbled royally and kept adding in +0+0+0 everytime I went to the top of
> my document. So I dumped the thing in hexadecimal and found out some very
> strange stuff indeed! What I tried was just editing the text to replace
> umlauts, accents, and so forth with unaccented characters. Everything wend
> smoothly and I discovered wherein the erroy lay.