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- MAILMERGE FIX
- by Dale Cockle, Kaypro Club Austin, August 1987
-
- (A fix for a DOT command bug)
-
- WORDSTAR/MAILMERGE: If the topmost dot command in a document
- that you are mailmerging is printed on the second and subsequent
- iterations, and it appears that the dot command is not
- functioning, try the following:
-
- Call up the document (the basic document, not the mailmerge file)
- and go to the bottom of the file (CTL-Q, C). Making sure there
- is a hard carriage return at the end of the last line indicated
- by a ">" character at right edge of screen, there probably will
- be a period following (below) that ">". This period combined
- with the period of the first dot command are combining to form a
- comment -- a bug in some versions of Wordstar.
-
- To beat the bug, put your cursor on the left margin of the last
- (empty) line of the document, erase to the end of the line (CTL-
- Q, Y) to make sure that there are no unprintable characters on
- the line (e.g., spaces) and enter a period on the left margin.
- This period and the period on the right edge of the screen will
- combine into a blank dot command comment allowing the dot command
- on the top of the document to function as it should as a dot
- command.