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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: [TMG(4.0d) ]Exhibit text files ( FILE.TXT) sentence length
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 12:49:00 -0500
References: <148.391453b5.2ee1bd4e@aol.com><5.1.1.6.2.20041203095136.01afd120@mail.umich.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20041203095136.01afd120@mail.umich.edu>


David S. Flower wrote:
>Has anyone that have used text files have you found a restriction on
>sentence length?
>
> I have scanned both manual (4.0d) & Lee's (5.n) and found no mention
> of the restriction or an option that sets the length.
> I also am awaiting a Wholly Genes support reply.

I have used extremely long external text files (some of more than 10,000
characters) without any problems. The important thing about this is that
the files must be text only. If they are created in a word processor, it
is not unusual to have some word processor control (non-printing and
un-seen) control characters in the file.

If you are having problems of this sort, I suggest opening the file in
something like NOTEPAD or in TMG's Text Editor, then edit out the junk
characters shown there.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
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A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)

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