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Ppage V1.2?

    04-Mar-89 00:03:41
Sb: #5948-Ppage V1.2?
Fm: Transactor 76004,1770
To: William Sharer 76426,112
Bill, I was talking to Arno Krautter from Gold Disk today about the "Document corrupt" problem that Professional Page has occasionally (not always because of zapping the file, either!)… Arno says there is an `ignore checksum' flag you can set by zapping a particular zero byte to 1… unfortunately, he couldn't remember off-hand the offset of the byte; however, it is one of the sea of zeroes that comes after the string identifying `Professional Page' near the beginning of the document and, since it is the only byte amongst those (except for that string's terminating null) that has any significance, changing them ALL to 1 should work. BTW, if you ever get a `Document Corrupt' that happens spontaneously (i.e. PP's fault), this is apparently because of a bug in which the font size is inadvertently set to zero by the program… search the document for "fs<0>", zap the 0 to whatever point size you want, then zap the checksum ignore flag as described above. Arno says this bug has been fixed for the next version (2.0, I guess).