Okidata ML 193 (IBM) Softfonts "aq" Prints

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:11 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: When using Okidata softfonts, the user deletes the character like he is supposed to, but when he prints the Gothic font, he receives an "aq" at the beginning of the sentence. Solutions: How did the customer actually delete the first character in his soft font file? What program did he use? If he used WP, even in DOS TEXT file mode, the file would have become useless because of the way WP (re)saves DOS Text files. These files need to be retrieved into a program which adds no codes at all (like WP margin codes, or other function codes), and which will save the file back without modification, in BINARY mode. There are some programs which have both TEXT modes and BINARY modes. In Text mode, all line feeds [10] will be saved as a CR/LF combination [13,10]. Binary mode, on the other hand, will not interpret any control codes found in the file, but will treat [10]s or [12]s or [13]s just like "a"s or "7"s. One good program to use is our own Program Editor, but there are many other text editors out there which should do the job just nicely. It's possible that you could even figure out how to get DOS's DEBUG program to do what you want. We feel the file must have sustained a larger change than just the deletion of the first character.

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