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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 22:21:44 -0500
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Lee,

I edited from TMG and also from MSW (2000). I believe that I said the
wrong thing when I said 254 characters after a paragraph character. I
believe that the paragraphs (CR LF) characters in a .DOC are no longer
called paragraph markers in the document when saved as .TXT but serve the
same purpose.

After each edit the same problem was still there.

It seem as though there is some parameter concerning line length when
generating the .DOC file for MSW to open.

I seem to recall a similar problem when generating a GEDCOM file where
long text lines were broken up according to a character limit parameter
for text.

Dave

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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