[WinMac] Re: cross-platform and MS Word

Victor Forberger(vforberg[at]lynx.dac.neu.edu)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:08:13 -0500

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I'm not sure if this is the problem, but I have experienced a similar
difficulty when the extension on the file was changed or missing when
opened on a Wintel machine.

I'm not sure exactly what happens, since all I've been able to do is
piece together what happened from confused and incomplete stories, but
it seems that when a person openes the file in Word and tries to assist
it by typing in an extension (especially TXT), the file becomes
corrupted and unusable even though when you look at it from a text
editor the file looks OK. It may be that because Word now stores a lot
of extra information in the file, that information is screwing up the
cross-platform translation when non-optimum conditions exist. Let us
know what you figure out.

Good luck,
Vic

PS- on my previous question regarding settings on a LaserJet 4M, I have
gotten ethertalk running on it, but the JetDirect card still cannot be
seen. Can a server capture a printer when moved from one ethernet port
to another?

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