🚀 go-pugleaf

Ming bought WPO2000 Standard, installed it on Ming's Gateway Astro.  Runs 
along with nary a problem.

ciao,

Ming

gmayer@cs.bgu.ac.il (Mayer Goldberg) wrote in
<r1Bw4.470$G15.14114@iad-read.news.verio.net>: 

>Dear WP users:
>
>I just ordered a copy of WPO2000 from Corel. It hasn't arrived yet and
>until I started reading this newsgroup I was really excited about
>returning to WP. I was a religious 5.1DOS and 6.0aDOS users and slowly
>drifted away, using TeX, flirting with Frame, etc. Finally, after
>checking the reviews and drooling at the prospects of working with XML
>(other word processors that use XML are terribly expensive!) I ordered
>WPO2000. 
>
>Then I subscribed to the wordperfect-related newsgroups to catch up on
>all the fun I've been mising, so that when the package arrives I'll be
>prepared ... What I wasn't prepared for was these 700+ messages: WP9
>seems so frighteningly unreliable that I'm scared to install it. I'm
>literally considering leaving the box in the corner of the room and
>going back to appease LaTeX ...
>
>I'm running Windows 95 US, on a 166MHz Pentium notebook with 48M RAM. WP
>Customer Service told me that this is more than enough to run WP9. Now I
>read that people with 600 MHz machines and 256M RAM are suffering from
>speed problems while opening WP documents ...
>
>I don't really know what to think. WP5.1DOS was very reliable. I knew of
>several bugs, but it was otherwise very reliable and hardly ever
>crashed. Of course, back in the "good old days" (shudder!) of DOS,
>programs didn't mess up the operating system, mess up other programs,
>etc, and what they did mess up was trivial to fix.
>
>- Can I expect a copy of WPO2000 ordered last week, directly from Corel,
>to have all the necessary service packs?? How do I identify just what
>service packs are needed?
>
>- Is WP9 safe to install?? I'm serious -- I'm not going to use a word
>processor that requires me to rename 85 files by hand, in order to
>install a service pack needed before I can install another service pack
>needed before I can print "Goodby World!".
>
>- I own and use Adobe Acrobat, and I use PDF as my primary output
>medium. What can I expect from WP9?? Should I use Adobe's Acrobat to
>generate PDF or should I use WP9's PDFWrite-like tool? What will happen
>to hyperlinks in a WP9 document under Adobe's distiller??
>
>- While reading reviews of WP9, I was somewhat happy to read of "WP's
>stability/bugs/reliability problems finally being put under contol" -- I
>say "somewhat" because having remained with WP5.1DOS, I was unaware they
>had any major reliability problems. I thought technical support for
>WP5.1 was astonishingly good. Now I read these newsgroups and sudder.
>What happened! 
>
>- Are there any major issues I should be aware of BEFORE I dare install
>WPO??
>
>Very nervous, and not so excited anymore,
>
>Mayer
>