Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!umd5!mimsy!oddjob!uwvax!dogie!uwmcsd1!lakesys!rich From: rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: WordPerfects??? Message-ID: <384@lakesys.UUCP> Date: 18 Jan 88 06:44:03 GMT References: <8801162346.AA18389@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert) Distribution: na Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee, WI Lines: 51 Keywords: WP In article <8801162346.AA18389@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> BRIGHT@DALAC.BITNET (BOB BRIGHT) writes: > > The truth, as usual, lies somewhere in between. The present incarnation >of WP does have a number of bugs, though few of them are really "fatal". >Most of them fall into the class of minor annoyances (such as the infamous >"key-click" problem). One of the most serious, to my mind, is that WP >doesn't clean up after itself properly when exiting -- at least the "Canadian >version" :-) doesn't, running on a mono 1040 with nite and moustrap resident. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Just have a question here. Why the mousetrap program? The program does allow the lockout of the menu bar, which may be the reason for the not so clean break upon exit. Nite I can understand, to blank the screen but another screen saver utl may solve the other problem your experiencing. I must admit that I use WP from a cold boot, seeing that if i'm going to be using it, I will be for some time,and when I exit the next program I will most likly be using will be my terminal disk, though I do use the terminal as a normal boot disk as it has my favorite .ACC's and ramdisk size. Key click problem, well I can't say that I have encountered that either, but then I don't have the volume up, as it slows my typing down ;^}. Unless your talking about something different than I am interpreting. >It frequently bombs upon exit, and when it doesn't, will often lock up >subsequent applications (such as Uniterm). I just make sure I reboot every >time I exit WP -- no big deal, since it's not the sort of program you're >going to be using to dash off a quick note to the net. > Word Perfect Corp. should probably be chastised slightly for not >debugging the program a little more thoroughly. (They can make up for it, >in my books, by making the first upgrade free to current owners.) On the >other hand, even *with* its current defects WP is by far the best word >processor available for the ST at the moment; certainly it's very far from >being "useless", as Pavneet Arora suggests. I don't know about you, but I >don't think I could have waited much longer for a really decent word processor ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In this I agree totally. WP has become my defacto standard W/P no matter what or how big whatever I am going to write is. I love it..... >for my ST. > >BBB > >Bob Bright >Philosophy Dept. >Dalhousie University >Halifax, NS B3H 3J5 UUCP: {Ihnp4,uwvax}!uwmcsd1!lakesys!rich Discalimer: The words,ideas,and expressions are my own, and not nessasarily always correct, and again I re-interate I am not affiliated with Word Perfect.