Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!julian!uwovax!35002_3025 From: 35002_3025@uwovax.uwo.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Message-ID: <1988@uwovax.uwo.ca> Date: 2 Apr 89 16:25:02 GMT References: <890401.10452590.033065@SFA.CP6> <1579@ubc-cs.UUCP> Lines: 53 Organisation: University of Western Ontario, Canada In article <1579@ubc-cs.UUCP>, fraga@tennents.cs.ubc.ca (Eric S Fraga) writes: > > A couple of short questions: > > - How usable is WP without a hard disc? i.e. how big is WP and > all the files needed at run time? I run it on two disk drives with no problems. It can be done on one, but two is preferrable. > > - Does WP generate Postscript output? I tend to print all my > documents on Postscript printers at work instead of on my Gemini > 10x. You can use WP to hook up to a Posctscipt printer, but i am not sure whether you can print ps to disk. > > - Does the ST version of WP understand ms-dos created WP files? Yes. > > Reasons for questions: > > My girlfriend uses WP at work (on an AT compatible) for all her > documents and we were thinking of getting an AT compatible for > home this fall so that she could use WP at home. However, for > that amount of money, I could easily buy a hard disc drive and WP > for the ST, if her files could be transfered to the ST and used > there. Sure, I xfer docs from school to home all the time. As long as they are version 4.1 all is okay. WP will tell you that it is not atari WP but just tel it load it anyway. Kevin-john Conway ...a librarian from hell... School of Library and Information Science University of Western Ontario London Canada "...deviants from the norm..." "My ideas may be silly, but I'm not. I'm positively skewed!" 35002_3025@uwovax.uwo.ca conway@uwovax.bitnet kjc@uwovax.bitnet