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Re: Windows 3.0 & WordPerfect 51

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From: Ted Roe
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1991 17:51
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In article <1991Jan3.134726.2148@athena.mit.edu> avaitor writes

>In article <1991Jan2.210740.20650@eng.ufl.edu> mjw@wasp.eng.ufl.edu (Michael J. Wohlgemuth) writes:
>>I have a user with a Zenith 386 running at 16 MHz, with 3 Mbytes of
>>extended memory, Netware workstation shell version 3.01, and 
>>QEMM 5.1.  When running in enhanced mode, and using Word Perfect 5.1,
>>most of the times that he tries to access the floppy drive, he
>>gets an error and the option to retry or cancel.
>
>Sorry, I can't help you.  I also have problems with WordPerfect 5.1 and
 ...
>Some of the problems I have:
>
>   * If I start up windows, and then start up WordPerfect as a full screen
>     DOS application, WordPerfect kills windows and exits straight to DOS
>     when I exit a document via F7.
 ...


I have been running WordPerfect 5.1 from Windows 3.0 since last summer with
no real problems on a Northgate 386/20Mhz with 4 MB memory, DOS 4.0.
My PIF file is as follows:

Program Filename:	C:\WP51\WP.EXE
Window Title:		WordPerfect
Optional Parameters:	/w=*,700 /r
Startup Directory:	c:\WP
Memory Requirements:	KB Required 358		KB Desired 640
Display Useage:         Full Screen

No unusual advanced options are set.

The /w=*,700 allows WordPerfect to use all available conventional memory and
up to 700KB of expanded memory. The /r switch loads menus and overlays into
expanded memory.

I have also been using DrawPerfect 1.1 with a similar PIF with no problems. 


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