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From: jdubb@bucsf.bu.edu (jay dubb)
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Subject: DecWrite journaling question+bug
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   I am posting this for a friend of mine who doesn't have access
to USENET, so please respond directly to mlevin@jade.tufts.edu.

    I am looking for information on the journaling behavior of
DecWrite for Ultrix 4.1. For example, I noticed a bug: when trying to
restore a crashed session, it messed up on a paper where the 1st page
contained a footnote - the footnote seems to have confused it, and it
started restoring text into the footnote and into other places where
it did not belong. Is there a known workaround for this? 
    Can anyone enlighten me about those .djl and .djb files DecWrite
produces? What's the difference? And, is there any way to extract the
text from one of those files? the 'strings' Ultrix program doesn't find
any of the text in the journalling files, but it is obviously there in
some sort of coded form. Does anyone know of the format, so I can
write a utility to extract the text myself? I would appreciate any
info on the behavior and format of DecWrite journalling files.
Thanks in advance.

			Mike Levin (mlevin@jade.tufts.edu)