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From: "David S. Flower" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: [TMG(4.0d) ]Exhibit text files ( FILE.TXT) sentence length
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:53:48 -0500
References: <5.1.1.6.2.20041203095136.01afd120@mail.umich.edu><148.391453b5.2ee1bd4e@aol.com><5.1.1.6.2.20041203095136.01afd120@mail.umich.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20041203124046.03dfb220@pop3.norton.antivirus>


Hi Lee,

I checked in the TMG editor and the sentence has the full length but some
where it gets truncated at 254 characters between TMG(4.0d) and MSW(2000).

I'm using the Journal (Narrative) report and the .txt file is attached to
the person (not a tag).

When I open the file in MSW (2000) the text is already there so I thought
that somehow TMG is specifying the line length of the text file that goes
into the report for MSW. I then have to use links to get the picture.jpg
file into the document

Dave Flower

At 12:49 PM 12/03/2004, you wrote:
>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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