DANGER: ascii 251

[Dr John Gordon jgordon@xxxxxxxx]

Had a frightening experience today. We are switching journal
production from Xy3+ to XyWin. I loaded a 60k file formatted in
Xy3 into XyWin, made a few changes and saved. Reloaded later into
XyWin only to find the file reduced to 500 bytes. The problem: we
use ascii 251 (the check mark) within a label in the Xy3 files to
check-off jobs as we prepare each file for typesetting. XyWin
read the Xy3 file without difficulty, but as soon as I changed it
and saved to disk, it truncated the file at the first check mark.
The same file, without the check mark, causes no problemss. BTW,
I tried the same sequence in Xy4 and had no difficulty. I assume
this is something to do with the Windows character set?
Fortunately, I had a backup of the destroyed file.

John Gordon