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Article #30148Re: WordPerfect - Differing opinions
From: Rich Dankert
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1988 05:29
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1988 05:29
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In article <1988Jan10.213637.7864@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> parora@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Pavneet Arora) writes:
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>I am sorry for not responding earlier. Our site just received the
>INFO-ATARI 16 digest. I didn't realize there was any activity on
>WordPerfect.
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>ASIDE: Al Gaspar or Rich Dankert, if you could please send me a
> summary I'd really appreciate it.
I would but the system i'm on doesn't have the information anymore.
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>My configuration is as follows:
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> A 1040ST with a single DD floppy
> Monochrome monitor
> Roland 1012 9-pin printer (just another FX-80 emulator)
> I believe this printer sells in the US as the Panasonic
> 1080i.
>
>My problems stem mainly from using printer.prg. That is where there
>I have found most of the bugs. Of course, if there are bugs there
>then it is awfully difficult to get formatted documents for your
>printer 8{). However, there are bugs in WP.prg as well.
I will say that the printer configurations that are supplied on the disk
are not quite correct, at least for the Panasonic. (seeing that this is the
only printer I tested, as I have a KX-P1090 (plain jane))
What I had to do was to set the end of document to a full reset instead of
what they provided, seing that they set the configuration at the start
of each document, this causes no problems. This I really *never considered
to be a bug (being that it was a preset configuration) and was a minor
change only. After that, the document went out to the printer perfectly
just as the TEST file was supposed to.
As far as the two versions, that could be entirely possible. As I stated,
with the version that I have No problems for at all. My main problem with
the many problems described by many users of the program, were really due to
the lack of reading a manual, which would have cured there preoblems, is they
would only read HARD paper copy.
My configuration just for edification is
1) 520ST -- bumped to 1 meg
1) MonoChrome monitor
1) Color monitor
2) SS/DD drives
1) Kx-p1090 printer
I do run a ramdisk with the program (drive D:) at about 200K. Other than this
we seem to be running pretty close systems.
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always correct, and I do not have any ties to W/P corp. I'm just a very
satisfied customer.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!bbn!uwmcsd1!lakesys!rich From: rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: WordPerfect - Differing opinions Message-ID: <370@lakesys.UUCP> Date: 13 Jan 88 05:29:08 GMT References: <1988Jan10.213637.7864@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Reply-To: rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert) Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee, WI Lines: 58 Keywords: Bewildered - but not because of the cold temps in Toronto