[WinMac] Re: cross-platform and MS Word
Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:12:59 -0500
Dear Kit,
Are the floppies FAT12 or FAT16? This is an issue that is
addressed in a
fix-up for PC Exchange (File Exchange).
Also, I would try a PC antivirus scanner on a PC, such as Sophos SWEEP.
When the problem crops up all of a sudden in the PC world, it could very
well be a virus. And campus LAN's pass virii around just like the clap! :)
Cheers!
Dan
At 02:44 PM 9/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>From: Kittrell Rushing, UT Chattanooga <krushing@cecasun.utc.edu>
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>
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>However, this week four of my students -- one in one section and
>three in another section of the course, each student working at a
>different computer have experienced the same problem -- after saving
>their word document to a pc disk - the document refused to open --
>when we attempt to open the document in Microsoft Word 5.1, we either
>get an error message that says "not enough memory"... or Word 5.1
>just grinds way until we have to force quit. If we try to open the
>document in Word98, the error message "this is not a word document"
>appears...
>
>I have put the document through MacLink Plus in an attempt to
>translate whatever may have happened into either Mord 5.1 or
>Word98.... and in one or two cases I've been able to recover the
>text (but no formatting or graphics)... in one (and only one) other
>case, I was able to translate a document into Word 5.1 with all the
>formatting (styles, tables, and graphics) still embedded in the
>document....
>
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