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In article <1791@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> matthews@batcomputer.UUCP (David Matthews) writes:

>Can anyone say more about the Wordperfect/LW connection?  (Version 4.2 hasn't
>made it here yet.)  I suppose the PC has to be attached via Appletalk.  Using
>what Appletalk adapter?  How well does the screen image represent the
>proportional fonts?


I've meant to use WordPerfect with a LW (not a plus) (I haven't had a spare
moment to connect them together--thankfully [see below]), and just today 
spoke at length with a woman in Word Perfect customer support.  She said 
"Wordperfect doesn't support the TOPS network, nor the AppleTalk network", 
but that the only method to connect WordPerfect to the LW that they support
was via a serial connection.

Furthermore, she also stated that WP4.2 didn't support the LW+ either
(though, as she didn't seem very technically inclined, I took this
to mean that the plus fonts aren't supported).

Additionally, I found out from her that WP4.2 sends a file over to the
LW that disables Xon/Xoff in the LW--AND THAT THIS DISABLING IS DONE
ON THE EPROM LEVEL.  She said that once this file is sent, you can
turn off the LW, and when you turn it back on again later, Xon/Xoff
is still disabled.  A later release of 4.2 is supposed to include
another file that re-enables Xon/Xoff protocols; until then, if
you plan to use your LW from a mac, or from any printer that wants
to use Xon/Xoff protocols, don't use WordPerfect!  (if anyone has
any more information on this, please contact me!)

To answer the last question David raised, you do NOT see font changes,
or varying point sizes (which is, as far as the WordPerfect manual
is concerned, a font change).  All text is shown in the standard
screen font (same with italics, btw).

But...there is hope!  TopsPrint just came out, which will supposedly
allow any application that has an FX-80 (or is it FX-85) printer
driver print to a postscript printer, and will send this output
over an appletalk network (as long as you have the rest of the 
TOPS network product running over appletalk).  I'll post a report
just as soon as I've had a chance to sit down and play with TopsPrint.

Peter

Disclaimer:  I work neither for WordPerfect, nor Centram systems, makers
of TOPS, TopsPrint, etc.  Also, I have a great deal of respect for the
folks at WordPerfect--I feel that they make an excellent product; BUT
I feel that in this instance, my information indicates that they goofed
on their postscript interface.
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