rp321@uiucuxa.CSO.UIUC.EDU (11/23/85)
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Info World just ran a reviews of WordPerfect, and explained
that they'd been forced to go from a four to a five star rating
system due to the experience; the new 4.1 version radically
outclassed everything they'd ever seen. My own work involves
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Sounds like a neat program! Is it copy-protected? If so, I wouldn't buy it.
Russell J. Price
University of Illinois
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rp321@uiucuxa.CSO.UIUC.EDUjabusch@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (11/23/85)
Hmmm... Methinks this is more of a commentary on programming
than on WordPerfect. Yes, there are many reasons for programming
with high level languages, and few would argue with you here. Perhaps
analysis of a software package should be withheld until you actually
try using it. I have used WordPerfect for some time now, and prefer
it to almost anything else available. I still use PC-Write for writing
code, but for papers, etc., WordPerfect is extremely nice. As for
current reviews, I have found most of them to be accurate, and can't
criticize anyone who has written a review of WordPerfect. I still have
yet to use all the features available, such as the merge and math
utilities, but everything I have used has worked very well and I have
not noticed any bugs.
Perhaps this is because of extensive testing before the product
ever gets out the door? I can't say for sure. My only problem is that
all the other people who also use the same machine with WordPerfect on
it also have their own color and backup directory preferences, and thus
I have to reconfigure it everytime I use it. This only takes a few
keystrokes, but I would like to have the option to call it up with a macro
that does all that. Perhaps it can be done, but I haven't had the time
to try to figure out how.
<usual disclaimers>
John W. Jabusch
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Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Room 230 Digital Computer Laboratory
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
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ARPA: jabusch@uiuc.arpajabusch@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (11/26/85)
No, WordPerfect is not copy-protected... It is very easy to install on hard disk or floppy systems, and requires only 256k RAM to run, although it can take advantage of more. It has a flag associated with it that will cause it to load all of itself into RAM, even though the default is to operate with overlays. We just got in our updates to 4.1. I'm impressed. I liked it before. Now it's faster, has a better on-line help system, has an automatic rewrite function, for those of you who have had to do it manually in the past. It even comes with 194 printer definitions, in case you need an exact driver. The thesaurus is nice, very fast, and easy to use. Extra programs include a printer program that will allow you to define a driver interface for your own printer, or customize one of the existing drivers, the convert program mentioned here before that will translate to and from Navy DIF, Wordstar, Multimate, and other formats. There are a lot of things I left out that. The best way to get to know it all is to get a demo from someone who has it. John Jabusch <no, I'm not associated with SSI, I just like their product>
mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) (12/04/85)
There are sever errors in the character width tables in Word Perfect 4.0 and 4.1 for the Toshiba 1351 24-pin matrix printer. Their PRINTER program makes it easy to fix, but it is quite time consuming.