Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!DOCKMASTER.ARPA!TMPLee From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (Ted Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: ProDos/WordPerfect Bug? Message-ID: <870719145506.250115@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 10:55:00 EDT Article-I.D.: DOCKMAST.870719145506.250115 Posted: Sun Jul 19 10:55:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 11:54:18 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 33 Date: 7 July 1987 11:15 edt From: Rick N. FincherSubject: Re: ProDos/WordPerfect Bug? I was having a problem with WordPerfect and their Tech support filks said not to copy the disks with anything but the Apple filer. Some copy programs evidently won't copy the disks properly. That doesn't seem to be the problem. I have talked to their tech support people (Jeff) several times and got them to admit there appears to be a fundamental, but seemingly trivial to fix, problem: when you exit from WordPerfect and answer N(o) to the question "do you want to exit" (or however it's worded), i.e., just want to start working with a new document, it for some reason does not properly clean up its overflow files, so that when you read in the next document it will (may) eventually mix stuff from the old one intothe new one and in fact lose pieces of the new one (which is what I had noticed.) The sure fix is to make sure you re-boot between documents. It also seems to work, but I've not exhaustively tested it, never to use the exit function: when you are done with a document, save it, delete the whole document (block seems to work for that) and then read in the new one. I also noted (I'm now trying to do some serious work with it) that its support for the Imagewriter printer is thoroughly screwed up. The proportional fonts are not at all justified right, and if you want the non-proportional one to be you have to use at least printer type 32 (imagewrite option) rather than 4 (imagewriter). I also don't like the fact that it defines the different print quality (draft, corresp, nlq) as different fonts: I'd much rather have them as different printers so I could select what quality I wanted without having to edit the print controls in the document. Anyone have a better set of printer/font definitions for the imagewriter and WordPerfect than come with it?