Re: Copying and Pasting from MS Word -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Copying and Pasting from MS Word
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:26:06 -0700
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Robert Ostrowski wrote:

For some reason or another, people here like to copy and paste text from
MS Word into green screen applications.
Maybe they think they are going to get bold and italics to print in a
QPRINT output file, who knows? Anyway,
what ever hidden characters are in Word's text, they are corrupting
records in physical files.

What kind of terminal emulator fails to filter out the garbage when translating to EBCDIC?!?

Not one I'd want to use, much less one I'd put my name on.

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JHHL

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