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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: WordUp3.0
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Date: 3 Jul 90 06:44:03 GMT
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In article <3784@rodan.acs.syr.edu> ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) writes:
>Well, WordUp3.0 arrived today.  Unfortunately, my ST is away,
>so I can't do anything with WordUp right now.  I do have a
>question for those of you out there that did get 3.0:  I
>thought this version was supposed to NOT use G
>GDOS...but there are references to using GDOS in the manual
>sent with the upgrade...can anyone explain what is going on?
>I would be working on this more myself, but as I said, I don't
>have my ST right now.
>---Gerry

I just got it today as well, and got it installed on my drive.
It seems to take up a lot more room than the 2.0 version did; but
it also comes with 700K worth of dictionary and thesaurus. At any
rate, the install program halted itself because I ran out of space
on my first try, and I had to scramble to get it all installed.

They're doing something funny with GDOS, hard to tell what or why.
At any rate, it replaces your ASSIGN.SYS file with a dummy file
that only has an entry for your printer driver, and a single
dummy entry for each screen resolution. It apparently relies on
itself to load fonts on demand, instead of listing them all out
in the assign.sys file.

Also, you can choose not to use the GDOS screen fonts if you're
tight on memory space. You can also choose not to use GDOS for
the printer. They provide a number of drivers to run a dot matrix
printer in its native modes, i.e., using the italics, boldfacing,
etc. features common on Epson FX style printers. (I was happy to
see that there's a KXP1091i driver for my printer...)

Of course, since this is the middle of summer and my school paper
writing demands are at an end, I haven't had much call to try
it out just yet. It looks pretty reasonable, though I was pretty
surprised at the small size of the new manual. (The format is
completely different, the tutorial stuff is all gone, and there's
no longer any attempt at hand-holding for folks new to computers
or the ST. A good idea, probably, since that sort of info can be
found so many other places.) I guess this is OK, but I really
appreciated the screen-shots and examples from the old manual.

The only thing I tried after I got it started was running with
Overscan, which didn't work. Oh well. It's got a lot to look into
though, so I guess I'll see when I've got something to write...
--
  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
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	if one of those data bits happens to flip,
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