Guest guest Posted October 2, 1998 Report Share Posted October 2, 1998 Hi Mike....Yes I have wordperfect. Can you tell me about the tidbit. Tammy General question > > >Being as how some of you are addicted to pain (!), does anyone here use >WordPerfect ? Better yet, does anyone use WordPerfect in a professional or >semi-professional way ( like using footnotes and so on )? If so, I've got a >little tidbit for you that you'll find terribly funny. > >Mike >mailto:byteme@... >---------------------------------------------------- >Reach me by ICQ. My ICQ# is 19431463 or, >* Page me online through my Personal Communication Center: >http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19431463 or, >* Send me E-mail Express directly to my computer screen >19431463@... >---------------------------------------------------- > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 2, 1998 Report Share Posted October 2, 1998 Here's a little info from Woody's Office Watch. Ignore the title just have a good look at the Wp problem. By the way, this has been known for a while but it's the first time I've seen it found in something that could really have serious legal impacts. It bears knowing. I passed it on to a relative who works for a police force and he went all bug-eyed. If you want to know mreo about WOW, go to http://www.wopr.com/wow/ Mike STARR REPORT VS. WORDPERFECT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I just couldn't pass this up. Seems that the Starr Report (which has instantly reached best-seller status) was written with WordPerfect. Mark Eckenwiler posted a fascinating note on the RISKS digests newsgroup (comp.risks) - the one run by Neumann - that goes like this: File under " Yet Another Case of 'Deleted' Text That Isn't " : *The Washington Post* reports (16 Sep 1998) that the copy of the Starr report made available on the Internet by the House contained footnotes absent from the printed version delivered to Congress. It seems that Starr's team wrote the document in WordPerfect, and provided the House with an authoritative disk copy. When House computer technicians converted the document to HTML format for release on the Web, footnotes that had been " deleted " in the drafting process suddenly reappeared. According to the *Post* story, when one deletes a WordPerfect footnote, the program simply inserts a token " that says, in effect, ignore the following passage. But the conversion to HTML had the effect of inserting a countermanding symbol: Ignore the ignore command. " One of the erroneously resurrected footnotes contained an alleged comment by Lewinsky when, upon being barred from the White House, she learned that the President was meeting with TV journalist Eleanor Mondale. The " deleted " footnote quoted Lewinsky as saying, " Maybe she's not sleeping with him yet. Anyway, there's the excitement. It's the president. " (A quick check reveals this to be footnote 739 of the Narrative chapter, which I downloaded from the Post web site Friday afternoon.) In addition to reviving deleted footnotes, the document conversion process also dropped some passages included in the official report. The erroneous additions and deletions made their way into innumerable online copies available on the Web, as well as full-text copies of the report included in the Saturday editions of the Post and several other newspapers. There's a old saying about Supreme Court opinions to the effect that the bodies are buried in the footnotes (e.g., that the most potent and difficult opposing legal arguments are cursorily dealt with there). One wonders what other tidbits are on the Starr disk. Fragmentary copies of earlier drafts? Slack space at the ends of files? Other WordPerfect hidden text? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2002 Report Share Posted June 25, 2002 .. Would it be possible for me to just suddenly get it? I was diagnosed with asthma at 39 yrs old. I am 41 now. beth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2002 Report Share Posted June 25, 2002 Absolutely!!!!!! I was finally diagnosed with asthma when I was an adult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2002 Report Share Posted June 25, 2002 Hi red, Could be you may have a touch of asthma or also if you are stressed it could also cause tightness in the chest and or pain. Anneliese -----Original Message-----From: redsibhsky Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 3:15 PMTo: asthma Subject: General QuestionI have not been diagnosed with Asthma (yet), but lately I have been having coughing fits really bad..to where I have trouble breathing. I also have been having pain/tightness in my chest which I thought might have been caused by my heart problem (bi-cuspid aorta) but my cardiologist can't find anything that would be causing my chest pain/tightness. A friend of mine recently suggested that maybe I have asthma, however I am 25 years old and have never had asthma before. Would it be possible for me to just suddenly get it? I know you aren't doctors or anything, just wanted a little friendly advice....mostly to see if anyone else has had the same problem...Thanks!!! Tina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2002 Report Share Posted June 25, 2002 Yes, Tina. Many of us weren't diagnosed until well into adulthood. I've only had my diagnosis for about 18 months, and I'm 42. I didn't have any symptoms until 3 or 4 years ago, and was active and outdoors most of my childhood. There are other possible troubles that could be explain your symptoms, you need to get to a Pulmonologist and/or an allergist. The Pulmonologist may want a note from the cardiologist saying that the heart troubles aren't causing the symptoms (mine did, and I ended up with a cardiac cath to get the full assurance that it wasn't my heart). If you read the 'back issues' you'll get a lot of good ideas here. Will Sawtelle c);-}> wsawtell@... General Question I have not been diagnosed with Asthma (yet), but lately I have been having coughing fits really bad..to where I have trouble breathing. I also have been having pain/tightness in my chest which I thought might have been caused by my heart problem (bi-cuspid aorta) but my cardiologist can't find anything that would be causing my chest pain/tightness. A friend of mine recently suggested that maybe I have asthma, however I am 25 years old and have never had asthma before. Would it be possible for me to just suddenly get it? I know you aren't doctors or anything, just wanted a little friendly advice....mostly to see if anyone else has had the same problem... Thanks!!! Tina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 26, 2002 Report Share Posted June 26, 2002 I was diagnosed at age 36 so yes you it can be adult onset. Very hard to diagnose until you have a major attack. --- redsibhsky wrote: > I have not been diagnosed with Asthma (yet), but > lately I have been > having coughing fits really bad..to where I have > trouble breathing. > I also have been having pain/tightness in my chest > which I thought > might have been caused by my heart problem > (bi-cuspid aorta) but my > cardiologist can't find anything that would be > causing my chest > pain/tightness. A friend of mine recently suggested > that maybe I > have asthma, however I am 25 years old and have > never had asthma > before. Would it be possible for me to just > suddenly get it? I know > you aren't doctors or anything, just wanted a little > friendly > advice....mostly to see if anyone else has had the > same problem... > > Thanks!!! Tina > > __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 26, 2002 Report Share Posted June 26, 2002 I was diagnosed at 27 after having trouble breathing during aerobics. Charlotte wrote: I was diagnosed at age 36 so yes you it can be adultonset. Very hard to diagnose until you have a majorattack. --- redsibhsky wrote:> I have not been diagnosed with Asthma (yet), but> lately I have been > having coughing fits really bad..to where I have> trouble breathing. > I also have been having pain/tightness in my chest> which I thought > might have been caused by my heart problem> (bi-cuspid aorta) but my > cardiologist can't find anything that would be> causing my chest > pain/tightness. A friend of mine recently suggested> that maybe I > have asthma, however I am 25 years old and have> never had asthma > before. Would it be possible for me to just> suddenly get it? I know > you aren't doctors or anything, just wanted a little> friendly > advice....mostly to see if anyone else has had the> same problem...> > Thanks!!! Tina> > __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 27, 2002 Report Share Posted June 27, 2002 ok...the dr says its acid reflux...HAHAHAHA!!! Anyway, I guess I'll have to wait until a major attack if asthma is what I have. Bye, and thanks for all your advice!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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