Re: xy reading

["Yo Intl." rrr@xxxxxxxx]

At 11:02 AM 2/1/01 EST, RJW823@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>Daedalus editors said they couldn't read the attachment and asked me to send
>a floppy. Though dubious, I did. Still unreadable. Daedalus people
finally
>said they would either scan the paper version or get necessary software to
>read Xywrite. Evidently they succeeded, because my article appeared.

That sounds bizarre. Even if they have never heard of XYwrite, they can
open a XY file easily from Word as a text file. What did they say happened
when they opened a XY file?

>Therefore the question: To learn from the experience and avoid something
like
>this in the future, what should I have done to make the editors' job
>manageable?

You can just remove the guillemots and what you have is a clean DOS text
file. There is no excuse for any word processor not to open that.


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