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From: CC004019@BROWNVM.BITNET (Christopher Chung)
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Subject: Re: ProDos/WordPerfect Bug?
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Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 00:20:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 00:20:53 1987
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>Has anyone else run into a problem with WordPerfect on the GS losing
>files, in a strange way?  Did some editing and wrote out the changed
>file as a new file under a different name from the old one.  (The old
>one was named AB, the new one AB.1) Came back next day to continue and
>found that only about half of the file was there, and the end was badly
>garbled (@ signs and other funny marks.)  Re-did what I had done before,
>saving it as AB.1.  Did some more, and saved that as AB.2.  Then tried
>to see what I had:  both AB.1 and AB.2 have the same information in
>them, and are identical to the original AB.  The directory shows the
>correct update times, and shows all three of different lengths.  I am
>using THE most recent version of WordPerfect (release 1.1, version H,
>just sent to me) which was supposed to correct some bugs in the earlier
>versions.  The WordPerfect people say they are having no problems.  The
>full pathname of the files involved is rather short, so it can't be that
>that has something to with it.  (e.g., /xyzw.2/pqr87/ab) The only other
>relevant thing might be that I used the Beagle Bros copy verb to move
>WordPerfect into RAM before running.

I just ran into the very same problem yesterday.  Strange...  However, I was
using a different program - Applewriter (dos version).  For some strange reason
my file had also been cut off.  I then used Copy II Plus to take a look at the
file and discovered that the file had gotten chopped off just where the inverse
@ symbols began.  I don't know how the @ symbols got there.  Can anyone explain
this?  Anyway, I then used Screenwriter II to try and edit it out since
Applewriter couldn't even read them in.  Screenwriter read the entire file
in but didn't display the inversed @ symbols.  But I went to the spot where the
inversed @ symbols should have been and deleted the text there and the file
was back to normal again.  Moral of the story?  Wordperfect may think that the
@ symbols that you are getting somehow indicated that it was the end of the
file like Applewriter did.  What you need to do is find a way to delete the
@ from the files.  Now that I have sort of found the problem, then what is the
solution.  I managed to solve my problem with Screenwriter but supposing
that screenwriter couldn't read the entire file in either.  Besides wordperfect
runs in prodos.  You would need to find another word processor that runs in
prodos and that would be able to read the entire file in.  Is there some kind
of sector editor that can be used to read a file in and delete these @ symbols?

Thanks,
Chris