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From: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Re: What is the best word processor on IBM micros?
Message-ID: <9552@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 20 May 91 14:34:02 GMT
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Reply-To: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <1991May19.160806.24610@wpi.WPI.EDU> tpirnat@wpi.WPI.EDU (Thomas Charles Pirnat) writes:
>
>  I feel compelled to write some of my comments regarding WP5.1.  I too
>agree that the equation editor and table making tool are excellent 
>implementations of tools that engineers need.  I have used WP5.1 for many
>lab reports and papers (including my MS Thesis!).  I learned how to use
>the software quickly and with little pain.
>  HOWEVER, I have one very major beef.  After saving some graphics (whether 
>they be equations or pictures) intensive documents, WP "gets lost" and
>ends up destroying your document.  During some of my editing sessions, the
>only way to restore my document back to normal was to use the Norton Utilities.
[List of problems deleted]

I noticed most of the listed problems, and more, in the first release of WP5.1
I received. But later interrim releases (which are free if your report
problems) have fixed these.

After dealing with buggy early 5.0 releases, I thought WordPerfect Corp would
have gotten their act together on 5.1 (after all it isn't an x.0 release), but
I was wrong as the first 5.1 had very serious problems.

But they managed to fix the bugs, and now it is a reasonably robust product --
it no longer seems to corrupt files although it still occasionally has 
placement problems. Considering the complexity of what it is doing, I forgive
it.

Now I'm anxiously awaiting WordPerfect for Windows, but I think I'll wait a
few months before ordering it.

-- 
Tom Almy
toma@sail.labs.tek.com
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