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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
Hitch, the multi-spacebar reminds me of an incident long past, back in good ol' DOS days. Our office (US base here in Japan) purchased a Zenith computer with TWO floppy drives. (Such swank!) Our software was "Peachtext" Office Suite (similar to version of MS Works /MS Office, they later became Peachtree accounting software).
They decided the secretary needed to learn to use it, and sent her to Korea for a 2-week school. After she had all the special skills, she was tasked to type up all the military-type regulations that applied to our operation. Skip forward 3 years, she has departed, I am delegated to edit the Operating Instructions. Each of these is multi-page, sometimes 15 to 20 pages each. Plain vanilla text, with footers for page numbers.
She made a separate file for EACH PAGE because she did not know how to add a page break.
So, about 1200 files...
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Holy Mother of G-d. I mean...we get manuscripts all the time with each chapter in a separate file (I'm sure that somewhere in time, there was a reason for this, but with today's computers, for basic text?????), but that one...that takes the cake.
I will say that the blinding ignorance of copy centers boggles me. I see scan after scan after scan here, of existing books that are imaged, not searchable, pdfs. What the holy hell???? I mean. WHO does that and why?
Hitch