Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!e260-3c.berkeley.edu!c60c-3ds From: c60c-3ds@e260-3c.berkeley.edu (John Kawakami) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Some questions on WordPerfect (was Re: WordPerfect ST status) Message-ID: <22606@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 4 Apr 89 17:57:43 GMT References: <890401.10452590.033065@SFA.CP6> <1579@ubc-cs.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 26 In article <1579@ubc-cs.UUCP> fraga@tennents.cs.ubc.ca (Eric S Fraga) writes: >- How usable is WP without a hard disc? i.e. how big is WP and >all the files needed at run time? Sort of. I use a 400K RAM disk on a 1040, and copy the main program and associated startup files to it. There's space for the help program if you need it. This leaves you with only enough memory for two windows though. And there is no speller (I do this only when I know I will not revise any more) and thesausrus, but these can be run from a floppy Optimally, I would copy the thesaurus to the ramdisk, and run WP from a floppy, but I like to run other programs during a work session, and WP (like many other commercial programs) has no shell escape feature. >- Does WP generate Postscript output? I tend to print all my >documents on Postscript printers at work instead of on my Gemini >10x. Yes. There are drivers for the Apple Laserwriter. I think there are also drivers for some QMS printers as well. But you can use only Times or Helvetica, so if you want another font, you have to hack the PS code. I just implied that you can save the PS output to disk didn't I? You can also send output to the serial port and the MIDI(!?!) port. >- Does the ST version of WP understand ms-dos created WP files? I think it does... John Kawakami c60c-3ds@web.berkeley.edu "Oh it's a good feeling, to know your alive..." - Fred Rogers