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From: "David S. Flower" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: lines truncated at 254 characters in .TXT file
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:49:18 -0500
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Lee,

The file was created in MSW (2000) and saved as Text only but I will do
as you said - open in TMG's text editor, save and try again.

At 09:41 PM 12/12/2004, you wrote:
>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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