Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!pasteur!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!lakesys!rich
From: rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: WordPerfects???
Keywords: WP
Message-ID: <413@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 88 06:38:05 GMT
References: <8801250003.AA27676@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert)
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Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee, WI
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>     If I'm not mistaken, the key-click problem is really due to a TOS
>bug, which the authors of WP for the ST apparently weren't familiar with.
>If you've been running for a while, under certain conditions (not sure
>exactly what they are, though I seem to encounter the problem when I'm
>using the mouse a lot) your machine will start clicking away as if you
>were holding down a key.  (Assuming that you have the volume turned up, of
>course.  Just how fast do you type, anyway, Rich? :-)) 

	I know what you are talking about as far as the Keyclick problem 
goes. I used to have the problem, until I changed the Keyboard, which has 
the newer version IKBD Controller. Havn't run into it since, but if it's 
a TOS bug as I have read etc.. then your guess is as good as mine, as my 
machine is on for about 8-10 hours/day, 7 days/week.

	Typing speed? Depends.... Out of my head I can get to about 70 wpm 
but if I have to copy from another hard copy, only around 40wpm. Though this 
is by no means stupendious, I have over taken the wife this past year ;^}.


>     For anyone considering buying WP, I'd like to emphasize once again
>that even *with* the bugs in the current version, it's eminently usable.
>I had the luxury of being able to borrow a copy of WP from the English
>Dept. here last fall.  I gave it a fairly solid workout for a couple of
>months, so I had a pretty good idea of what bugs and limitations I could
>expect to encounter, before I purchased my own copy.  (The educational price
>in Canada, BTW, is $160).  If you need the power (I especially like the
>recursive macros, and the superb merge facility), WP is indeed worth every
>penny.

	In the above I fully agree. Tis a WP that will have to be beaten.

-rich
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