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From: meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Word for OS/2
Keywords: tutorial
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.185917.717@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 91 18:59:17 GMT
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ballard@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard) writes:
> 
>One more example of Microsoft's lack of support for OS/2... they've done 
>the bare minimum to make this run with the SMK. 

I'll say.  Don't press a key or press a mouse button while Word is printing...
they were too cheap to put in a separate thread for printing, and it often
won't yield control to the kernel when printing.  Therefore, I get "Word is 
not responding, Terminate it?"  messages.  If I say no, it continues fine and
eventually finishes printing.  The system then becomes responsive again.

One thing in its favor though,  Outside of the above, I have only gotten the
program to crash once, and that was with a file corrupted by the Windows
version.  Even then, it just died quietly like all good OS/2 apps should.  
(The Windows version kills windows most of the time, and crashes 5 to 10 times
every day.)  

Mixed blessings....

Thanks for the pointer to the new DLLs for PMWord.  If there is anyplace I can 
put them for others to get at, let me know.  (ftp sites)

Don
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