Do you have these problems with VIP Professional?

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2 total messages Started by ZrustTL Sun, 09 Feb 1986 16:12

#2415

Author: ZrustTL
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1986 16:12

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I've been (trying) to use VIP for a home finance system with some
pretty bizarre results.  I've got a fairly small (200X50) worksheet
and the 12/18/85 update of VIP.  I'm using the TOS system disk as is
(standard desk acc. files) and a 1 meg ST without TOS ROMs.  /WS tells
me I've got 288K of available memory after the worksheet is loaded.  Now
here are some of the nasty things I see:

1.  Lots of "2 system error" and "3 system error" messages, garbled
    worksheets (things moved around in random places), lockups and
    mushrooms especially when doing CALC after a few items are added
    to the sheet.  This also seems to happen when doing /WIC or WIR 
    commands.  After the system errors occur, nothing is recoverable.
    I assume these errors are processor exceptions, does anyone 
    know what the 2 and 3 system errors represent?

2.  Loss of data and column skewing when doing range prints. I'm using
    a Gemini 10X printer.

Problem 1 has rendered VIP useless to me.  I don't want to use up
any of my customer service allocation on what are possibly bugs in
the program itself, so please let us know on the net if you have
encountered similar or other problems.  If you have a system setup
similar to mine, have beat on VIP to some extent and DON'T have
any problems, please send me mail or post this info on the net.
Thanks!

-- 
Terry Zrust  AT&T-ISL Denver, CO    (303) 538-4547

Re: Do you have these problems with VIP

#2521

Author: ericr
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1986 15:37

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I am running VIP on the standard 512K 520ST and have seen similar problems.

1) On very rare(albeit important) occasions I have lost my spreadsheet to
a System 2 message.  It always seems to be related to printing somehow as
I have just recently done some printing.

2) I am using a printer that does not understand Epson escape sequences
so if VIP depends on an Epson, that may explain some of my problems.
Basically I am missing numeric data if it is in the first column and
any labels that exceed the column width will offset the data to the
right of them the same number of spaces.  This is a well known bug 
which has been reported.


Eric Ross
ihnp4!hpfcla!hpvcla!ericr

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