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Re: Microsoft Word 3.01

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From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1987 03:54
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In article <2841@phri.UUCP> fritz@phri.UUCP (Dave Fritzinger) writes:
>Now that I'm hearing all about MS Word 3.01, I was wondering...
>Who is going to get the free upgrade (or, what constitutes a registered 
>user of Word 3.0)?

Any registered user (you did turn in your registration card, didn't you???)

In fact, most, if not all Word 3.0 users should have their upgrade by now.
Mine has been here about two weeks.

>BTW, has anyone noticed this bug in Word 3.0?  If you convert a large Word
>1.05 document to Word 3.0, and then try to do anything at all with it 
>(except to save it, thank God), the program freezes and the cursor stays as
>an insertion point, no matter where on the screen you move it.

There was a serious bug in 1.05 -> 3.0 conversions for large files (> 32K,
I believe).  Fixed in 3.01.


Chuq Von Rospach	chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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