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From: ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: text selection (in TextEdit) proble
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Date: 6 Oct 90 01:07:00 GMT
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Probably the version of ttxt you use under the old system just used spaces as   delimiters, and the new version uses the toolbox's word-definition functions.
So you wouldn't be able to change it without serious hacking. I would just 
get the older version back.