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From: heflin@cod.NOSC.MIL (Greg R. Heflin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: zenith/wp 5.1 incompatibility
Message-ID: <2515@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 3 Dec 90 23:41:08 GMT
References: <00940A14.1E1B33E0@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU>
Reply-To: heflin@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Greg R. Heflin)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <00940A14.1E1B33E0@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU> arussell@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Anne Russell) writes:
>I have a 286 Z-248, 640 K RAM, 2 MB expanded memory (Intel expansion board),
>80 MB HD (Seagate).  I ran resident PC-Cache, WP Shell.  I had no problems
>at all until I installed WP 5.1 last January.  Since then I I have had 
>............[deleted].......
>Anne Russell, OA Support
>CSU, Chico, California
>arussell@oavax.csuchico.edu


We have over 200 zeniths both 286 and 386 and run wp 4.2, 5.0, and 5.1.
We have never run into a problem like that.  I would first suspect your
cache program.  Did you try running without a disk cache?

There is one pesky machine that does have problems.  It has a Paradise VGA
card (I think-off the top of my head).  Whenever a spell check is done and a 
word is found that either begins with the letter 'n' OR is not in the dictionary
the screen seems to change mode - the bottom half of all the characters 
disappear and the characters become a string of dots.  This is the only 
machine it happens on and the problem is very repeatable on demand! Anyone
have any ideas? (I think it is a hardware problem and not a WP problem)

-gregory heflin
navelex,sd
-- 

-gregory  Just my two cents which shouldn't make a flame,
	  unless you rub them real hard.