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This morning, its great for flat ASCII... 
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Not that long actually...accidently tried to open a word document on the server. I was surprised that it actually opened with wordpad. Now, notepad I use all the time.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Wordpad is great for rtf files, which is the same as the formatting in a .net rich text box. (although both only handle a subset of the full rtf spec.) Can cut and paste between them keeping formatting.
Learned this when doing a basic report writer for a customer, RTF files are basically a type of meta tagged text file, perfect for building report templates that can be used without the need for interop or similar. Teamed with a virtual pdf printer app produces nice fully formatted reports from non office installed servers and even the most underpowered pcs (i.e. those that choke on office/interop and over-featured report writer libraries.)
Few years ago now, but got to the point where I could hand code RTF - including tables & graphics.
Interestingly wordpad handles tables in rtf files but has no way to create or structurally alter them - clearly ms purposely hobbled wordpad'ss capabilities [to keep selling word].
Also interesting: create a small doc in wordpad and save it, will be 1 maybe 2 kb (and the source readable). Open and edit that doc with ms word and save as rtf, will become a huge file - totally bloated out and intelligible. Easy fix though: open it in wordpad and save it again cleans out the bloat.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Excellent post! There may be something here I can use! Thanks!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Years ago, but I remember that it was much better at opening broken docs than word
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I use it weekly.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Used it 20 years ago to edit a DLL where someone had hard coded a serial number in an expected response from a signal generator. Changed it to the customer's signal generator and was up and running.
Turns out that a few months prior to this, I saw a colleague scrabbling around on various computers looking for some code and this was it. He had encountered the same problem but didn't own up and had left by the time I found the issue.
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TLDR: I had a black out while reversing car into our parking spot in the apartment.
My wife and I went to movie this morning. While coming back, we notices that all nearby parking spots were vacant. My wife said, this is great, it will be so easy to maneuver car into spot (which is otherwise high precision steering control test). Next I remember is her screaming. Why?
I had knocked down one of my motorcycles while reversing. I have no recollection of engaging the reverse gear, reversing or hitting it. Wife says I was talking to her and responding to our conversation. But, I have no memory of that. Aside from scratch on the back of car, bent guard rails on motorcycle, possible repair work as something broke (still haven't checked what does this piece belong to) I am not sure why this happened.
Is it just part of getting older? Or just total lack of attention? May be hunger as I didn't had breakfast this morning?
Silver lining: This happened in our parking lot so we are still healthy. Also, there were no vehicles nearby so I did not damage anyone else's property.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Go to doctor. Soon.
If you can black out while reversing slowly, what is there to prevent you doing the same at 60, 70 mph?
No, it's not normal: It has never happened to me, and I'm 58. So go and get it checked - but let your wife do the driving.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Its never happened to me either, and I'm now 75 and been driving since I was 17. If it did, I would be very worried and down the Docs in an instance. The only bit of Griff's note that is worrying is the bit about letting the wife drive.
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The responsible thing to do would be to get yourself checked by your doctor.
Do realize though that an over-zealous doctor might try to get your driver's license taken away immediately (they have that power), unless he's satisfied you're not at risk of experiencing this again, while driving on a public street.
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I had one black out about 7 years ago but luckily I was walking. I still ended up in hospital in Budapest - a thoroughly frightening experience. Apparently my blood pressure spiked dramatically, probably due the the excellent wine and roast duck I had the night before.
As others have said, see a doctor, get yourself checked out, it is NOT normal.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Yep. Could be trivial, could be serious: but you gotta get the serious possibilities checked (and hopefully eliminated) as the sooner they are diagnosed, the better the prognosis. Ignoring it until it happens again can make the eventual outcome a whole load worse!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'd blame it on trying to do two things at once. The only dent in my truck's tailgate happened when the wife called as I was backing out of a parking spot at work...I knew that gate keypad was there, but as my mind wandered with the conversation, I totally misjudged the distance.
Have you ever driven somewhere, then 10 minutes later realize that you don't remember a thing about the trip?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: I'd blame it on trying to do two things at once
Blaming is what you do when you don't want to go to a docter.
Had regular blackouts when my calorie-intake was too low. It may be nothing, but it is best to not ignore any warnings the body gives (so, no on-error-resume-next attitude for your health).
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Why the rant icon?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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because it's a boring facebook post.
or are we going to start posting pictures of our lunch and the neighbours new budgie taking a sh*t too? (Seeing as we're already getting stupid 6 year old kid jokes reposted here.)
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Who pissed in your cheerios?
I guess your mother never told you ... [^]
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I felt like I was ranting at the time, but that might have been real life around me as I was typing not on the message boards?  I don't know.
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Watching the TV with herself, and what comes on?
A Christmas tree advert.
It's b*st*ard July for elephant's sake! 
I know they start earlier every year, but that's just ridiculous.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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wait! don't buy yet! resist the urge ...
I predict they will be deeply discounted on the 26 Dec / boxing day sale
Sin tack
the any key okay
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I'm running a special on wreaths and ornaments, care to place an order?
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Quote: I'm running a special on wreaths and ornaments, care to place an order?
But, but, but, Christmas was 7 months ago! You're a bit late, aren't you?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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