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Re: Word Perfect 4.1 bug

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From: Diane Barlow Close
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1989 19:47
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In article <8909162233.AA17831@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> UUCJEFF@ECNCDC.BITNET (jeff beer) writes:
>I have been having this problem with Word Perfect 4.1.  I am working on
>a file of about 70K, and it seems to have problems with the length.
>Sometimes when I save it, it doesnt get save, and then inside the edit
>buffer, the end of it gets mangled.  Sometimes it gets truncated, other
>times the last few pages get rewritten at the end.

Well something went wrong with my first posting (only the .sig got out), so
I'll try again:

This is a known and documented bug having something to do with virtual
files.  It was discovered it many, many months ago.  It has been reported to
WordPerfect and it has been fixed IN THE LATEST VERSION.  This bug only
occurs in the 1988 version.  But, if you report having problems with this
bug, you will get the 1989 version sent to you FREE (otherwise you will have
to pay WordPerfect $17.50 to ``upgrade'' to the 1989 version).
-- 
Diane Barlow Close
      {uunet, crash, ucsd}!cacilj!close
      close@cacilj.uucp
      Free Canada -- Trade Mulroney
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From: close@cacilj.UUCP (Diane Barlow Close)
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Subject: Re: Word Perfect 4.1 bug
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Date: 17 Sep 89 19:47:28 GMT
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