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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (Ted Lee)
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Subject: Re: ProDos/WordPerfect Bug?
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Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 10:55:00 EDT
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    Date:  7 July 1987 11:15 edt
    From:  Rick N. Fincher 
    Subject:  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?