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From: "Steven Reid" <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Help with mailmerge not posting to web page
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:21:34 -0800
References: <00bf01c2c1cd$e4945ce0$89aebd41@stevenl9rbu9rn> <5.1.0.14.0.20030122104432.00a22ec0@pop3.norton.antivirus>


Good points & thanks you very much Elsi and Pat for your prompt help! You
were right: I did originally upload query.txt using Fileman. However...

I tried both suggestions and neither solved the problem.
First I used Fileman to paste the template file (query.txt) which it saved
as query.html and I had to rename back to query.txt and still got the same
results when I tried it.
Then I used FTPCommander 5.80 (A freeware ftp client program) to upload
query.txt and still it still produces the same result.

--A Befuddled Steve



----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Asher" <>
To: "Leigh Compton" <>; <>; <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Help with mailmerge not posting to web page


> At 08:30 AM 1/22/2003, Leigh Compton wrote:
> >Steven:
> >
> >I haven't had a chance to take a look at your files, but if I had to
> >guess, it would be that you had uploaded your template with the FreePages
> >File Manager. Because the File Manager always uploads files using a
> >binary file transfer, the template winds up with incorrect 'end-of-line'
> >characters and therefore is not used correctly by the MailMerge script.
> >
> >Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a solution to this particular
> >problem - other than to use an FTP client to do this upload.
>
> Steven,
>
> Elsi is correct. Your template file was uploaded in binary mode. If you
> don't have a stand alone FTP client, use File Manager to create and save
> (upload) your template, and it will be saved as an ASCII file.
>
> You can copy and paste the plain text file you have saved on your computer
> into the "Create new HTML" box in File Manager.
>
>
> Pat
>
>
>


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