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From: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Wordflair II note
Message-ID: <1991May11.233822.8127@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 12 May 91 03:38:22 GMT
References: <9105110423.AA01187@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
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In article <9105110423.AA01187@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu>, aq009@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
>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!
>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.)

Yup, G+Plus.

>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.

Nope.  The program cannot be made to print on his 2 meg TT.  He has burned 
up many dollars (in phone bills) to Atari discussing this with them.

>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.  :-)

Most of said phone calls deal with a memory upgrade, which has been promised
him on several dates (all of which are in the past).  My point was that if 
"a TT shouldn't have only two megs of memory..." they why are they selling 
them with only two megs?!?  A moot point, of course.  He will soon get his 
memory upgrade (snicker, shall we take bets?) and be happy ever after . . . . 
 
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