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From: rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: WordPerfect - Differing opinions
Message-ID: <370@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 05:29:08 GMT
References: <1988Jan10.213637.7864@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert)
Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee, WI
Lines: 58
Keywords: Bewildered - but not because of the cold temps in Toronto

In article <1988Jan10.213637.7864@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> parora@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Pavneet Arora) writes:
>
>
>I am sorry for not responding earlier.  Our site just received the
>INFO-ATARI 16 digest.  I didn't realize there was any activity on
>WordPerfect.
>
>ASIDE:  Al Gaspar or Rich Dankert, if you could please send me a 
>        summary I'd really appreciate it.

	I would but the system i'm on doesn't have the information anymore.

>
>My configuration is as follows:
>
>          A 1040ST with a single DD floppy
>          Monochrome monitor
>          Roland 1012 9-pin printer (just another FX-80 emulator)
>            I believe this printer sells in the US as the Panasonic
>            1080i.
>
>My problems stem mainly from using printer.prg.  That is where there
>I have found most of the bugs.  Of course, if there are bugs there
>then it is awfully difficult to get formatted documents for your
>printer 8{).  However, there are bugs in WP.prg as well.

I will say that the printer configurations that are supplied on the disk
are not quite correct, at least for the Panasonic. (seeing that this is the 
only printer I tested, as I have a KX-P1090 (plain jane))

What I had to do was to set the end of document to a full reset instead of 
what they provided, seing that they set the configuration at the start 
of each document, this causes no problems. This I really *never considered
to be a bug (being that it was a preset configuration) and was a minor 
change only. After that, the document went out to the printer perfectly 
just as the  TEST file was supposed to.

As far as the two versions, that could be entirely possible. As I stated, 
with the version that I have No problems for at all. My main problem with 
the many problems described by many users of the program, were really due to 
the lack of reading a manual, which would have cured there preoblems, is they 
would only read HARD paper copy.

My configuration just for edification is 

1) 520ST -- bumped to 1 meg
1) MonoChrome monitor
1) Color monitor
2) SS/DD drives
1) Kx-p1090 printer

I do run a ramdisk with the program (drive D:) at about 200K. Other than this
we seem to be running pretty close systems. 

UUCP: {Ihnp4,uwvax}!uwmcsd1!lakesys!rich
Discalimer: The words,ideas,and expressions are my own, and not nessasarily 
always correct, and I do not have any ties to W/P corp. I'm just a very 
satisfied customer.