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From: tholen@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (David Tholen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Word for OS/2
Message-ID: <11991@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 17 Mar 91 23:07:40 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii
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I received the Word for OS/2 patch diskette from Microsoft on Saturday.
Here's some information that you may or may not have seen in comp.os.os2.apps.

Only Standard Edition is affected, not Extended Edition.
Only version 1.3 is affected, not version 1.2 or 1.21.
Only SYSLEVEL XR00000 is affected.  The implication is that there is a more
recent CSD revision to OS/2 SE version 1.3, but I saw no information about
it on the IBM BBS in Atlanta; it had only CSDs to version 1.2.

Also, the implication is that the problem is with OS/2, not with Word.
Because the Word replacement DLL only fixes the problem for Word, this bug
could potentially affect other OS/2 PM applications, thus the only real fix
is to get a CSD from IBM.  If a newer version of OS/2 is installed, the
replacement DLL should be discarded in favor of the original one shipped
with the Word for OS/2 package (PMWordU.Dll).

The new DLL did solve the problems I was experiencing earlier, though a new
one cropped up today.  I was up to the part of the tutorial that deals with
printing, and I experienced a protection violation.  It died gracefully, as
protected mode programs should, and did not bring down the system.  The
problem may have been due to the fact that I did not have my printer turned
on at the time I was running the tutorial, and maybe it tried to print
something, but there was no warning about any impending printing.

I also ran across one other minor bug.  At one point, when it's "Your turn"
to practice some functions, the user is asked to compare the contents of
Full Menus with Short Menus.  Don't leave that exercise with Short Menus
in effect, because a little later on, you're asked to click on View
Preferences.  View Preferences isn't available when Short Menus is in
effect, so you wind up in a loop -- the tutorial keeps giving you a hint
as to what to do, but the program won't let you do it.  I had to break out
of the tutorial to regain control.