Re: [SLUG] IS this just me?

From: Ryland Bingham (ryland@t3t.com)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 08:17:55 EDT


I ran into this before. I think it has something to do with hidden
control characters in the OO/ms word format. I think I did a save-as
plain asci text, opened the file in Vi, and then I was able to see the
weird characters (not 100% sure on the exact chain of events). I
removed 'em, and was able to copy and paste the whole thing.

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 06:33, Mike Manchester wrote:
> No I get nothing when I do the paste.
> Mike M.
> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 20:27, Ronan Heffernan wrote:
> > Mike Manchester wrote:
> > > While filling out tons of on line job applications. I'm running into a
> > > problem and don't know if it's me, my puter or Linux. Here's the
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Open Open Office and select all (lets say about 100 lines of text) then
> > > open an email and try to paste the the email. I can only seem to paste
> > > about 10 lines at a time. This makes filling out applications a already
> > > time consuming operation even longer. Is there someway to increase the
> > > size of this cut and paste buffer or solve the problem. Provided that
> > > you have the problem. NOTE: This doesn't seem to be OpenOffice as the
> > > same problem exists with Abiword as well.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Mike M.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Are you sure that it is pasting 10 "lines", or is it flattening an
> > entire word-processor paragraph into one "line" in the paste-window (and
> > thus really pasting everything)?
> >
> > --ronan
> >
>
>

-- 
Ryland Bingham	
Unix/Linux Specialist
T3 Technologies, Inc.



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