Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!blake.u.washington.edu!dlarson From: dlarson@blake.u.washington.edu (Dale Larson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Word Processors Message-ID: <12018@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 30 Nov 90 13:06:43 GMT References: <11903@hubcap.clemson.edu> <4035@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu Organization: The Evergreen State College, WA Lines: 43 In article bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht) writes: >I talked to WordPerfect yesterday, and they told me the 2.0 compatible version >won't be available for another two weeks. WP had compitibility problems when 1.3 came out, especially with FFS (which made its List Files "feature" crash at seemingly random intervals - as if that release of WP didn't crash often enough on it's own). It took WP about nine months to release a compatible release and for most of that time, "two more weeks" was the story off of the support line. I have a letter dated June, '90 from somebody there responding to my complaints about WP's compatibility with a beta 2.0, and stating that WP would notfix compatibility problems until a release 2.0 was available, but would do so as soon as possible. (The 3000 had been released a week or two before the date of that letter :-) So far, here is my record of the delays in getting a 2.0 compatible WP (My notes on calls to Amiga WP @ 1-800-321-3204): 13-SEP-90 Dave says 2.0 update planned for mid-October. 01-OCT-90 Dave says update still planned for mid-October. 19-OCT-90 Shawni says update bumped to November 07-NOV-90 Mike says will be released in three weeks. 19-NOV-90 Shawni says Dec. 1, still can't order in advance. "They should never have said October, they knew it wouldn't be ready." 26-NOV-90 Shawni says "It'll be out in a couple of weeks." -- -Dale Larson (dlarson@blake.u.washington.edu)