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   sjack to Krishna Myneni   
   Re: copying and pasting from pdf to Fort   
   01 Jul 24 12:13:36   
   
   From: sjack@dontemail.me   
      
   Krishna Myneni  wrote:   
   > Yesterday, I learned a good lesson to not copy and paste text from a pdf   
   > into the Forth environment. There can be hidden characters when doing   
   > so, and then a word fails because the input isn't correct.   
      
   I've encountered that problem often enough over many years to   
   get a feel for it as when action doesn't match logic.   
   Vim has a ':list' option that will display non-printiables   
   and for block files just re-write the suspect line. Also   
   have ADUMP that prints text and displays any non-printable   
   as '^nn', where nn was the value of the non-printable.   
      
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