Re: Wildcard error message

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

I ran your very useful DREF program to get rid of SOME of the redundant
codes, cleaned out a few others from the command line (e.g., all resets
of tab stops and ≪PTN≫ commands) and ran MODEFIX, as I named your
program. I got the same error message, BUT the command executed and did
the changes! I then added two additional lines to fix the
≪MDSU≫≪WN≫≪MDNM≫ (for footnote numbers; the author did not use
M$Works footnote capability, if it has one, so I must now get all her
notes, which are simply text at the end, into note form), ran that, and
had no problems. Weird!
	Has anyone any idea of what causes this awful plethora of duplicative
codes? Is it just the bloated overkill of Word and WordImPerfect, the
fact that people don't use their software correctly, or an artifact of
the conversion filters? Or, probably, all three together? Anyway, thanks
very much for your help.
Patricia