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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HELP Wordperfect 5.1
Message-ID: <7169@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 90 14:55:35 GMT
References: <5463.26094224@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <5463.26094224@uwovax.uwo.ca> 17002_3324@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>there is a 'new' version of 5.1 available; does this solve all
>the problems in the current version?

I received a January upgrade that fixed all problems I was seeing except for
poor performance with large documents (up to 10 times slower for such things
as creating an index and table of contents).

>I am using a networked version (DEC PCSA) version of WP5.1; a rather
>disturbing error is cropping up; WP seems to randomly substitute
>two letters (eg 'Hx') for two letters sporadically throughout my document.
>The letters are the same for each user session; documents created on a 
>certain day seem to have the same letters, but the letters change day to day.

We had the same problem with a standard version. The problem went away with
the January release.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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