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From: rfutscher@pbs.org
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Ventura can't read MS Word files
Message-ID: <10465.272497dd@pbs.org>
Date: 23 Oct 90 23:19:57 GMT
References: <69220004@hpl-opus.HP.COM> <69220005@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA
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In article <69220005@hpl-opus.HP.COM>, knotts@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Tom Knotts) writes:
> It seems that I was a little vague in my posting. To be more specific,
> I am running Ventura 3.0 Gold, Windows version, and WFW 1.0 (1.1
> update is on the way). I see no reason why there should be incompat-
> ibility between these two for-Windows programs. It even says right on
> the box that documents can be read in from WFW. Perhaps I am doing
> something wrong (just got the program). The full error message says
> that the word-processor format is different than specified *or as
> listed in the CHP (file?)*. Perhaps this is a clue. I don't have any
> trouble pulling in ASCII or Wordstar files, though....
> 
> Thanks,
> tom
   I UNDERSTAND THAT THE DEFAULD FILE FORMAT FOR WFW IS A FAST SAVE FORMAT.
I THINK THAT WFW APPENDS THE CHANGES TO THE END OF THE DOCUMENT. TRY DOING A
FULL SAVE.