WORDSTAR 4.0 to 5.5??

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From: Mark Bagdy
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:08

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I write this query for a friend that is not connected to the NET.

My friend uses WORDSTAR.  He was using 4.0 very happily.  After installing
5.5 (he says...) various "older" files that were not touched in a while
now have spurious characters in the file.  He can clean these manually, but
they seem to be in many files.

Spurious characters like:

^]}^@^@Uepson^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^ ...
.op
.mt0
...
TEXT TEXT TEXT
TEXT TEXT ...      ^] ^@K:^Q^E^@^@^@^P3^A^@^@^@^@^@

and so on.

    
My questions to help him out:

1)  Are these control characters?  They look like NULL (^@) etc.

2)  Does anyone have experience with WordStar word processing that could
    tell me if there are compatibility issues between 4.0 and 5.5?

3)  Any suggestions as to how these multiple files could be corrupted??

Please email me with your inputs.  Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
THANKS!  (A reply post here would be just fine, also...)

Regards,
Mark Bagdy
bagdy@hpmtaa.lvld.hp.com

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Subject: WORDSTAR 4.0 to 5.5??
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Date: 10 Apr 92 14:08:53 GMT
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