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From: Tim_M_Dierks@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWrite 5.0
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Date: 15 Jun 88 23:25:32 GMT
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sidhe@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Solas Sidhe--ye faerie fyre) writes:
>format (which is just newline=return for paragraph breaks...).  Anyway, the
file
>was big, about 98 pages long.  When I opened the file, I got the usual dialog
>that asked me if I wanted to convert it, I clicked on the paragraph button.

If I understand correctly, you told MacWrite that a carriage return signified a
new paragraph, and then handed it a file without any carriage returns (because
they are represented by ^j on Un*x systems.)  So MacWrite tried to make a singl
paragraph, only 98 pages long.  I'm not real surprised it died, you probably
made
some length-of-paragraph counter overflow.

Tim Dierks
Tim_Dierks@cup.portal.com - dierks@ndmath.uucp - C4TKG3@IRISHMVS.BITNET
"Mate, this parrot wouldn't vroom if you put four million volts through it!"