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Subject: Re: Word Perfect
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Date: Fri, 15-May-87 03:21:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 15 03:21:00 1987
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You may remember my having posted some comments on the IIGS version of
WordPerfect awhile ago.  I had some trouble with it and have been in
several long conversations with the very helpful people at the company.
It appears that most of my trouble is because there were some bugs in
the earlier releases of the current version; they are sending me the
most recent one now.  I have also been promised that shortly (month or
two) there will be a version that supports the mouse AND most of the
features that are standard with the IBM version and that recent
purchasers will get free upgrades to that.  They admitted the
advertizing copy is wrong:  the IBM and Apple files are not completely
compatibile -- the IBM version supports a much richer variety of
footnote formats & the Apple version doesn't recognize those codes.  The
conversion between them should be fairly simple and the fellow I talked
was going to see if he could get a copy of the specs so I could write a
conversion program.

Given all that, my only complaint is that displaying text on the GS is
slower than one would like because it uses the super-hi-res graphics
display rather than the text display (so it can show underlines and
boldface on the screen.)  This makes scrolling around a document
somewhat annoying -- but then I noticed that 4.2 on my IBM version was
noticeably slower than 4.0!