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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: lines truncated at 254 characters in .TXT file
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:41:39 -0500
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David S. Flower wrote:
>When I look at the file from within TMG (4.0d & 5.15) the sentences are of
>normal length but after the generation of the report they are truncated. It
>seem as though it happens during the transfer to MSW. Note that it is 254
>characters after the last paragraph marker.

David, this makes me wonder. The file you sent me was text only and did
not have any "paragraph markers" except for the fact that the paragraphs
were separated by a couple of carriage returns. Is there a chance that
there are any non-printing (e.g., formatting) characters in the file. That
is, is the file a text only file produced by a text editor and not a word
processor. By text editor, I mean something line TMG's Text Editor,
NOTEPAD, and the like. These do not add any formatting characters to make
text italic, bold, underlined or otherwise format the text to make it look
"pretty". If the file was created with a word processor, it _could_ have
some formatting characters that you would not see. You would need to open
the file in a text editor and re-save it from there to remove the
formatting characters.

The formatting character(s) could cause the line truncation that you are
seeing. The file that I have from you is strictly text, so I am not seeing
that situation (although I do see something else that I have reported to
development.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
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