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From: jafischer@tiger.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Word Perfect
Message-ID: <4330@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 23:33:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  3 23:33:40 1987
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Reply-To: jafischer@tiger.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer)
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In article <1236@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> crash@calgary.UUCP (Glen ) writes:
>
> $99.00 US wow, in Canada they are flogging it for $400.00 cdn.
	My local dealer likes to slap the $599.95 CDN "list price" on it and
sell it at a drastically lower price.  I believe they try for $395, but have
frequent sales.  I purchased mine for $175.  I thought _I_ was getting a great
deal.  $99 US makes me cry.


>Does word perfect do automatic backups??? I'd hate having the
>program lock up, and thus, losing my work.
	I just had to respond to this.  I have it doing auto backups every
2, yes 2, minutes to the ramdisk!  It gets especially flakey when using
multiple columns.  For instance, when you're in a multiple-column section,
_don't_ use the mouse to position the cursor.  It usually dies.
	But let me hasten to add that I'm not overly bothered by these bugs,
since I figure that in the next update they'll likely be fixed, and in the
meantime I have myself one hell of a whiz-bang WP.  With the afore-mentioned
auto-backup to my ETERNAL ramdisk, I just hit the reset button and the less-
than-2-minute-old file is intact.  Actually, I keep meaning to change it to
1 minute, since the backup is so fast that you barely get time to
see the 'Backing up file' dialog, and thus it's no inconvenience.  And during
typical editing the program doesn't die too often (for me).  It _is_
extraordinarily poor marketing practice to release a product with such
obvious problems, but some marketing folks never learn this lesson.  One thing
_I've_ learned (with this and with dBMAN) is that the more expensive programs
are no more free from this affliction than the cheapos.  Indeed, it's almost
the other way around, since the cheapos are often more simple programs and
hence easier to debug.


>People have been asking about ramdisk prototype kit costs,
>less than $100.00 cdn.
	Wow yourself.  Considering you can populate this with 256K chips, this
sounds pretty good!  What does this 'kit' entail?  Is it a plug'n'go job?  My
memory fails me.  (Pun not intended).
--
				- Jonathan A. Fischer
				jafischer@lily.waterloo.edu
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