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From: ahm@rick.att.com (Andy Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Need WordStar utility
Keywords: wordstar non-document
Message-ID: <429@rick.att.com>
Date: 19 Dec 90 15:32:16 GMT
References: <16529@s.ms.uky.edu> <699@organpipe.UUCP> <16548@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: ahm@rick.UUCP (Andy Meyer)
Organization: AT&T CSTS - S. Plainfield, NJ
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In article <16548@s.ms.uky.edu> tindle@ms.uky.edu (Ken Tindle) writes:
> In article <699@organpipe.UUCP> tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) writes:
> >The thing to do (perhaps you know this) is to run wordstar in
> >non-document mode - then you read and write plain old ascii files and
> >all is well.  
> 
> Even in non-document mode, WordStar will set the high bit of the character

...but only if you've pressed ^B at anytime during the edit!

As someone mentioned, use PIP to filter the file:

    A>PIP NOHIBITS.TXT=HIBITS.TXT[Z]

Andy
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