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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WordPerfect Woes
Message-ID: <1614@agora.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 89 02:03:38 GMT
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From article <7563@ecsvax.UUCP>, by kms@ecsvax.UUCP (Ken Steele):
> I just got WordPerfect (4.1.9  Aug 10 1988).  I figured
> that all the bugs should be worked out by now.  However
> I discovered that I loose 50k of memory for just 
> invoking the sucker (no file load, no print, no nothing)
> and it apparently doesn't come back.  I called WP and
> the answerer (Cody) said that it was a known problem
> that would be corrected in the NEXT version.
> 
> Note my revision date (Aug 1988)!  Given the recent discussion
> about the decision of WP to hold off on further development,
> my revision date (and it is the newest) makes one wonder
> when that decision was made internally.

	I just grabbed an announcement from WP off of Plink last night.
Here's the text...

The following information was provided by Lynn LeBaron of 
WordPerfect Corp.  Please redistribute this information to
BBSes, newsletters, wherever people are likely to see it. 
Registered owners of WordPerfect 4.1 for the Amiga should
contact WPCorp in Orem, Utah for more information.  The phone
number is in your manual. 
.
------
QUOTE
.
A brief description of the features and enhancements provided
by the soon to be released maintenance update of Amiga
WordPerfect 4.1:
.
- beep - setup option - the user now has more beep options. 
This includes an audible as well as screen beep.  The user
can  specify that the beep will occur on 1- hyphenation, 2-
search failure, 3- errors, & 4- three seconds before an auto
backup occurs (backup warn).
.
- default macro path - setup option - the user can now
specify where he would like his macros saved.
.
- default document path - setup option - path where file
requestors will default to unless the user specifies
otherwise.
.
- screen options - setup option - the user can now have
WordPerfect open on the WorkBench screen, or two-bit plane
interlace or non-interlace screens.
.
- edit buffer sizing - setup option - the amount of memory
that is used for editing a document can now be more carefully
controlled.  If a user turns on 'auto' edit buffer sizing
WordPerfect will allocate enough memory to hold the entire
document in memory (as opposed to keeping some of it on disk)
within the bounds the user has set.  Having the entire
document in memory enhances the speed of editing and most
other features.  However, the user can put limits on the
amount of memory used by WordPerfect, thus allowing him/her
sufficient memory to run other applications in conjunction
with WordPerfect.
.
- auto hyphenation - with this option on WordPerfect trys to
algorithmically hyphenate thus relieving the user of having
to respond to hyphenation requestor.
.
-hyphenation disable - on occasion, documents get bad data in
them, or mistakes occur which would normally cause the
hyphenation requestor to come up many times.  Sometimes this
occurs by accidently setting the margins very small, or
editing a file receive via modem which has ^Zs padding the
end of the file.  Usually all it would take to fix it would
be to delete the offending code(s) from the document.  This
can be frustrating situation since WordPerfect insists on
using this data even though it wasn't really intended to be
there.  Hyphenation disable was invented to handle this
situation.  When the hyphenation requestor comes up, the user
simply presses 'disable' and the hyphenation requestor will
no longer appear.  This mode allows the user to break the
normal rules of WordPerfect.  I.e. it allows lines to be
wider than the margins, thus making it possible to remove the
offending data and then re-enable hyphenation to work in
normal mode.  If the user forgets to re-enable hyphenation,
WordPerfect will remind him/her when he/she tries to save or
print the document, thus making sure that the document is
properly formatted before putting it anywhere permanent.
.
- file requestors - the file requestors in WordPerfect have
been modified to be consistent with the Amiga user interface.
.
- scroll arrows - all scroll arrows have been moved to the
bottom of their respective scroll bar to allow easier
incremental access.  This is consistent with future standards
set by Commodore.
.     
- taller font support - WordPerfect will now display any
non-proportional 8xN font for document editing.
.
- requestor consolidation - many cases of multiple requestors
coming up have been replaced with single requestors
performing the function of the many.  This includes: column
definition, page length setting, hyphenation options, beep
options, print options (in Print), etc.
.
- spell checking - better speed, smoother, progress report
(updates a word count display every eight words)
.
Expected ship date: 1 September 1989.
.
END OF QUOTE

	The expectation is that previously unsquashed bugs will be
gone also... Note that the last update was closer to October 1988,
not the version you've bought. Maybe yours has been on the shelf for
a while...

> Ken Steele   Dept. of Psychology    kms@ecsvax.[bitnet || UUCP]
>              Mars Hill College      kms@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
>              Mars Hill, NC 28754       
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