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In article <1164@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>On what I believe is a related note: I called New Horizons to tell them I
>have problems with ProWrite version 3.0 running on an A3000.  If I select
>"cancel" while it is printing, the program hangs.  The mouse pointer stays
>as a round clock, and ProWrite does not respond to menu events.  They say
>that this problem only shows up with the OS being shipped with the current
>batch of A3000's.  I have my printer on the serial port, others have it on
>their parallel port, and both cases hang while trying to close the printer
>after aborting the I/O.

I sometimes get the same thing on my 1000 under 1.3.2 and ProWrite 3.0.1.
Not often, though.  I suspect something they are doing just marginally works
and the 3000 is a little more sensitive to it (because of speed perhaps?).
They told me no one else had reported the problem.  They did send a very nice
letter and seemed genuinely willing to help.  They mentioned that 3.0.2
fixes the problems I'm having with 3.0.1.  I hope they've fixed the
printer problems too.  I'm using 2.5 until they get 3.x worked out.
I wonder what kind of test suite they used.  
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Todd M. Lewis, utoddl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu, utoddl@ecsvax.bitnet
  To quote Eugene H. Spafford, "Crisis and Aftermath", Communications of
  the ACM, vol. 32, no. 6, (June 1989), p. 684:
  "It is curious that this many people [...] would assume to know the
   intent of the author based on the observed behavior of the program."