Trouble: ....document type...

From: grandane@grandane.com
Date: Sat, Sep 15 2001

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    Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:44:07 -0400 (EDT)
    From: grandane@grandane.com
    Message-ID: <3BA368A1.FDCE4F27@grandane.com>
    To: www-validator@w3.org
    Subject: Trouble: ....document type...
    
    Am receiving "No errors found" but with message saying "This document
    _would_ validate as the document type specified if 
    updated  to match the Options used. "
    
    Have tried adding to my meta tags one of the explanations given by
    validator i.e.,   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
    charset=utf-8"> .......
    
    Example:
                <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
                For HTML, use the <meta> tag. Example:
                <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
    charset=utf-8"> ........
    
    this makes no difference to validation result???
    
    All pages I have validated successfully this past week all now receive
    the same message as above, which I assume now means they don't _really_
    validate.
    
    Originally my Doc Type was HTML 4.0, tried changing to 4.01 as this is
    what validator states, doesn't appear to make much difference.
    
    I havn't a clue what I'm supposed to do here, use Win NT 4.0 am
    wondering if this makes a difference in some way?
    
    Advice very much needed.
    
    Pat Greenfield.