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From: sguerke@brahms.udel.edu (Stephen Guerke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: WP 5.1 on a Zenith 286 Laptop
Message-ID: <20039@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 18:43:35 GMT
References: <1991Mar25.201834.12377@garfield.cs.mun.ca>
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <1991Mar25.201834.12377@garfield.cs.mun.ca> sandy@garfield.cs.mun.ca(Sandy Walsh) writes:
>As mentioned in the subject line, I am running WP 5.1 on a Zenith 286 
>laptop ... with little success. I was running the initial release version
>and the printer driver would always lock up (not print) a document with
>graphics in it. Ok, I could cope, but when I upgraded to the Oct 11/90
>release, the printer problem was fixed, but now I hit a "Inproper text
>format" error when trying to replace/save the docment to disk. 
>
>Not that this is bad enough, but it erases the old copy of the document
>BEFORE telling me the current document is in the 'WRONG' format!
>
>It is because of this I have been using Latex for all my latest projects!
>Can anyone help me ... has anyone out there experienced this problem.
>WP is the only program that consistantly fails on the laptop ... every-
>thing else is great!
>
>Please help!
>sandy walsh
>sandy@garield.cs.mun.ca

I have experienced very similar problems with my Zenith SS286 laptop
running WP 5.1.  I was able to run 5.0 without any problem.  However I
have had all sorts of problems running 5.1, many similar to what has
been mentioned above.  In addition I have had screen freezes, keyboard
lockups occur when I attempt to print. (printer is a brother 1709
using that emulation).  It will sometimes fail to print part of a
document as well.  My SS286 has 1Mb expanded memory set up as 512K for
a disk cache (Norton 5.0) and 512K of expanded memory.  I have 5.1
installed on a number of other machines, including PS/2's and an HP
Vectra ES/12, using the same printer and definition, without any
similar problems.  Also the SS286 seems to run all other applications
just fine.
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   Stephen Guerke, Coord. Computer Resources  sguerke@brahms.udel.edu
   University of Delaware Parallel Program    stephen.guerke@mvs.udel.edu
   Georgetown, DE 19947                       ILV20078@UDELVM.UDEL.EDU



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   Stephen Guerke, Coord. Computer Resources  sguerke@brahms.udel.edu
   University of Delaware Parallel Program    stephen.guerke@mvs.udel.edu
   Georgetown, DE 19947                       ILV20078@UDELVM.UDEL.EDU