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From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D Danziger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Software Authors please note.
Message-ID: <1990Feb20.175923.19752@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 90 17:59:23 GMT
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In article <3893@paperboy.OSF.ORG> hankin@sauron.osf.org (Scott Hankin) writes:
>
>    There's another problem with MacWrite format.  I have a document which
>    was written with MacWrite and when MacWrite II tries to convert it, it
>    goes into some endless loop, and I have to reboot to escape.  [...]
>
>- Scott
>
>------------------------------
>Scott Hankin  (hankin@osf.org)
>Open Software Foundation

I've run into this problem with Macwrite documents often, as I am
'disk repair consultant' for the Macintosh at my university.  One
thing that sometimes works (and is definitely worth trying) is to open
it with MS Word, which is more lenient.  Then you can open the Word
file with MWII, if you want to.  If you don't have Word, there is a
shareware DA called 'Quill' which I have used which reads MW files and
text files...  Or try some other utility.

Scott, if you need to see what's in the file, if you send it to me
I'll work on it for you...

-- 

	-=Alan=-

	aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu