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From: carlson@gateway.mitre.org (Bruce Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Word For Windows
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Date: 17 Aug 89 16:20:10 GMT
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In article <101000065@hpcvlx.HP.COM>daveg@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Dave Guggisberg) writes:
>David Sampson writes:
>>I have a keyboard with stand alone cursor keys.  If you hold down the
>>down arrow key (or any other arrow key) until you hear the first
>>click, then release it, the cursor starts "free running" through the
>>document.  It is not just reading the keyboard buffer, because if you
>>hit a right arrow key (assuming you originally hit down arrow), the
>>cursor instantly changes direction and starts free running across each
>>line.  You can stop this by hitting page up or page down.

>This does not happen with my MS Word 5.0 on a Hewlett-Packard
>Vectra RS-20 or my no-name clone at home.  Both have the 101 enhanced
>keyboards with separate cursor keys.  It may be a bug, but it may


I had Word 4.0 running on a Zenith Z-248 at work and on my AST Premium 286
at home.  The Zenith used to have problems with the shift key "sticking", so
everything was shifted to uppercase, including the numbers displaying
their shifted values.  You could break it out of this mode by tapping one
of the shift keys a few times.  It also had problems with a free running 
cursor and a sticking autorepeat.  The problems got worse (more frequent) 
if I was also using Sidekick on the Zenith.

The problems with Word 4.0/Zenith did not show up on any other programs I
ran on the Zenith, and the there were no problems with Word 4.0 on
the AST Premium.   It seemed that it was just Word and the Z-248 that had
trouble coexisting.  The AST used a Phoenix BIOS and Zenith used their own
BIOS, so maybe this was the culprit.

I've been using Word 5.0 on the AST and so far I haven't found any problems.
I don't have access to a Zenith anymore, so I don't know if Word 5.0 runs
correctly on the Z-248.

Bruce Carlson