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From: aq009@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David A. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Wordflair II note
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Date: 11 May 91 04:23:31 GMT
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boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes:

> Heehee, my buddy with the shiny new TT has received his Wordflair II.  The 
> funny thing is, the "print" item is grayed out because 2mb is not enough 
> memory for the program to print (to his Atari laser).  Sheesh!
>
> As a side note, he says that Wordflair II looks great (on the screen).

I assume he has GDOS (or G+PLUS) installed before he runs WordFlair II. 
(It _is_ required in order to print, but I'm sure that he realizes this.)

When the Atari laser needs to print, it snatches 1 meg of memory from the
computer.  Thus if he wants to print to his laser printer on a two meg
system, he in effect is limited to using only one meg for the program
itself.  Tell him to remove all desk accessories and all the fonts he
doesn't need in order to conserve memory.  The manual gives details on how
to do these things to save memory.

Of course, you could also suggest that he add more RAM to his system. 
Really, a TT shouldn't have only two megs of memory...  It's quite
limiting.  The nice thing about having lots of memory is not having to
worry about those things.  :-)

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