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From: heinicke@uwovax.uwo.ca (Allan Heinicke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: WordPerf 5.1 *view* and DV kills screen
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.194558.9373@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 7 Jun 91 00:45:58 GMT
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In article <10459@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL>, efb@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL (Everett F Batey) writes:
> Have been fighting this one for a long time .. we have had several offers
> of advice to use *virtualize* and done so.  BUT, the continuing problem is
> that when in WordPerfect I select PRINT and VIEW .. once this has been done
> it is only a matter of a few cpu ticks and I can count on seeing the BIG
> FISHNET where my herc driven monitor used to be.  This is a very fine mesh
> lath of video, about 90 percent of the pixels are lit on the crt in a very
> small rectangular mesh pattern .. when I run WP without DV .. it NEVER hap-
> pens.  I still have control of the program and I can exit, save and come back
> or usually just reboot.  The only way to prevent this is to exit WP and its
> DV window after viewing the pages of text.
> 
> Any ideas welcome .. hacks to WP just as welcome .. NO it IS NOT WELL BEHAVED
> in the VIEW mode .. /Ev/

Try reading page 173 of the DV manual.