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From: koerber.sin@sni.de (Mathias Koerber)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: cwp, thx & problem
Message-ID: <2004@nixsin.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 91 01:20:59 GMT
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In article <9106201049.AA20677@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> CHUAHDC@ELEC.CANTERBURY.AC.NZ writes:
|In article: <2000@nixsin.UUCP>,  koerber.sin@sni.de (I) wrote;
|> 	Can't find base font. program aborted.
|
|CWP changes the attributes of a file in the SYS directory to system when you
|first run it.  When you coppied the files to a floppy, the file with 
|the system bit set would not be copied.  That is why it would not run 
|elsewhere.  You may have to copy from the original .ZOO file.  Alternatively,
|if you have PCTOOLS (or any other file manager like tools which can handle
|hidden files), use PCTOOLS to copy the hidden file.
|

Thx alot, I'll try that later...

|In another article I wrote:
|> One more thing: There isn't any notice about registration etc in the cwp.zoo
|> file. Can someone please clarify the status of the program. Otherwise I'll
|> assume it is PD :-)
|
|As I understood from CWP documentation posted here earlier on, CWP is a demo
|version of a commercial product.  I quote the doccumentation, "The only 
|difference between the demo version and the full version is the size of a 
|file being edited is limited to about 1000 bytes (500 Chinese characters) 
|with the demo version."
|
|[Hope this helps.]

I tried the posted version, which seems to allow more than 1000 bytes 
(at least editing, I dunno about saving). The docs say the FTPable version
is demo. Maybe the author posted the real thing by mistake?. Nevertheless,
the intro shows a copyright (in Chinese :-)). 
|
|As an aside, I have not been able to find any mention of how to contact the 
|authors, so I will have to post this observation here instead of sending
|email:
|
|a)  I do not see why one of the font files have to be protected with a
|    set system bit.  If this is a demo program, one should be able to
|    copy it easily.
|
|b)  It sometimes crashes when I type fast.  Sometimes, it goes into a funny.
|    The only way to get out of this mode is to quit the program and start
|    again.
|
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