In the last month and a half or so the WinBMD output files (.SCA) that I have been emailing to my Coordinator have been arriving double spaced - that is an extra carriage return for each line. When re-opening the files WinBMD complains about unknown line in file, four times, before opening the file. Looking in Notepad finds each line double spaced. The files on my PC are OK. The copy of the email that I sent is OK. A couple of the files uploaded to FreeBMD OK. I am on AOL and my Coordinator is on Blueyonder. This only started about a month and a half ago, it's been fine for many years before that. Any ideas? Dave.

Dave, you say that the output files on your PC are okay so I assume that WinBMD is creating them correctly and that you believe the email system is creating the double line spacing. Have you tried emailing an output file to someone else? This may help isolate the problem to yourself or your co-ordinators' end of the email chain. You are welcome to send one or two output files directly to myself if you wish. Come to think of it, my co-ordinator has a blueyonder email address and he hasn't mentioned any problems. John. Dave Rothery wrote: > In the last month and a half or so the WinBMD output files (.SCA) that I have been emailing to my Coordinator have been arriving double spaced - that is an extra carriage return for each line. When re-opening the files WinBMD complains about unknown line in file, four times, before opening the file. Looking in Notepad finds each line double spaced. > > The files on my PC are OK. The copy of the email that I sent is OK. A couple of the files uploaded to FreeBMD OK. > > I am on AOL and my Coordinator is on Blueyonder. This only started about a month and a half ago, it's been fine for many years before that. > > Any ideas? > > Dave. > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Typically I have seen this happen when you screen scrape a file from something like http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/show-file.pl. Some mail systems do play around with line end conventions (which are different on Mac, Unix and Windows) so it is possible that AOL have changed something, although one would have thought it would have affected everyone. Alternatively, has your co-ordinator just moved to a Mac? If you and your coordinator have WinZIP available you could zip the file before sending it and that should stop it happening. Barrie > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Rothery [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 23 November 2008 13:11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: WinBMD Files Double Spaced When Emailed > > In the last month and a half or so the WinBMD output files > (.SCA) that I have been emailing to my Coordinator have been > arriving double spaced - that is an extra carriage return for > each line. When re-opening the files WinBMD complains about > unknown line in file, four times, before opening the file. > Looking in Notepad finds each line double spaced. > > The files on my PC are OK. The copy of the email that I sent > is OK. A couple of the files uploaded to FreeBMD OK. > > I am on AOL and my Coordinator is on Blueyonder. This only > started about a month and a half ago, it's been fine for many > years before that. > > Any ideas? > > Dave. > >

I received a file today that had been pasted into an email. When copied to a text editor it appeared double spaced. I found that when I went to reply to the email that it had been sent in Rich Text (HTML). By changing the format of the 'reply' email to 'Plain Text' and then copying and pasting into the text editor, the double-spacing had disappeared and the file was in a format BMDVerify could cope with. Further experimentation revealed that if you take a double-spaced file and paste it into a blank email in 'Rich Text (HTML)' format, then change the format to 'Plain Text' you can get rid of the double-spacing. This is in Windows Mail, the Vista (downgrade) version of Outlook Express. May be worth trying if you get any more double-spaced files. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Archer Barrie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:13 PM Subject: RE: WinBMD Files Double Spaced When Emailed > Typically I have seen this happen when you screen scrape a file from > something like http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/show-file.pl. > > Some mail systems do play around with line end conventions (which are > different on Mac, Unix and Windows) so it is possible that AOL have > changed something, although one would have thought it would have > affected everyone. > > Alternatively, has your co-ordinator just moved to a Mac? > > If you and your coordinator have WinZIP available you could zip the file > before sending it and that should stop it happening. > > Barrie > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dave Rothery [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: 23 November 2008 13:11 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: WinBMD Files Double Spaced When Emailed >> >> In the last month and a half or so the WinBMD output files >> (.SCA) that I have been emailing to my Coordinator have been >> arriving double spaced - that is an extra carriage return for >> each line. When re-opening the files WinBMD complains about >> unknown line in file, four times, before opening the file. >> Looking in Notepad finds each line double spaced. >> >> The files on my PC are OK. The copy of the email that I sent >> is OK. A couple of the files uploaded to FreeBMD OK. >> >> I am on AOL and my Coordinator is on Blueyonder. This only >> started about a month and a half ago, it's been fine for many >> years before that. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Dave.

An update: With the help of John Crew (many thanks) - it seems that it is an AOL problem. AOL seemed to have changed something with the encoding of text files. It seems to have nothing to do with the email format; HTML or plain text - it is the text file attachment that is being double spaced. It has nothing to do with WinBMD. As suggested, zipping the files worked. Any other AOL users having problems emailing text file attachments? With Outlook Express? Dave. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Rothery" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 1:11 PM Subject: WinBMD Files Double Spaced When Emailed > In the last month and a half or so the WinBMD output files (.SCA) that I > have been emailing to my Coordinator have been arriving double spaced - > that is an extra carriage return for each line. When re-opening the files > WinBMD complains about unknown line in file, four times, before opening > the file. Looking in Notepad finds each line double spaced. > > The files on my PC are OK. The copy of the email that I sent is OK. A > couple of the files uploaded to FreeBMD OK. > > I am on AOL and my Coordinator is on Blueyonder. This only started about a > month and a half ago, it's been fine for many years before that. > > Any ideas? > > Dave. > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >