MAILMERGE FIX by Dale Cockle, Kaypro Club Austin, August 1987 (A fix for a DOT command bug) WORDSTAR/MAILMERGE: If the topmost dot command in a document that you are mailmerging is printed on the second and subsequent iterations, and it appears that the dot command is not functioning, try the following: Call up the document (the basic document, not the mailmerge file) and go to the bottom of the file (CTL-Q, C). Making sure there is a hard carriage return at the end of the last line indicated by a ">" character at right edge of screen, there probably will be a period following (below) that ">". This period combined with the period of the first dot command are combining to form a comment -- a bug in some versions of Wordstar. To beat the bug, put your cursor on the left margin of the last (empty) line of the document, erase to the end of the line (CTL- Q, Y) to make sure that there are no unprintable characters on the line (e.g., spaces) and enter a period on the left margin. This period and the period on the right edge of the screen will combine into a blank dot command comment allowing the dot command on the top of the document to function as it should as a dot command.