Re: truncated file

["George Scithers" owlswickpress@xxxxxxxx]

Another possibility would be to inspect the file using the Norton
 Utilities and convert the offending bytes to spaces.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Caballero" 
To: "XyWrite list" 
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:30 AM
Subject: truncated file


> Dear List,
>   I once knew how to solve this problem, but it has not come
up for a
> long time. Today, however, I was working away and XyWrite
locked up (I
> was scrolling while I had some distant text defined). I had to
do a
> "warm" reboot. When I returned to the file, both the original
and the
> "QUIT1.TMP" that XyWrite saved for me have the same problem:
no data past
> the second page of the file. The back-up version is rather old
and I will
> have lost data, so I'm hunting for a sweeter solution...
>   I seem to recall that there is some trickiness with a
false EOF
> marker that can be removed through clever means. But I can't
recall the
> method. I appreciate any help.
>
> Cheers,
> Carlo
>
>
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> Carlo Caballero
> Asst. Prof. of Music
> College of Music, Campus Box 301
> The University of Colorado
> Boulder, CO 80309
>
> thyrsus@xxxxxxxx
>
> "Dickens was little read, except by the public." --Maurice
Baring, "The
> Nineties"
>
>