jxh@cup.portal.com (05/28/88)
I am using FinalWord V2.20 on my IBM PC. I bought it from Mark of the Unicorn a few years back. Recently, I got a letter from them identifying FW Corp. as the owners of the product. Hmmm... Today, I am trying to find a printer description for a Kyocera F1000A laser printer, using its native-mode DESCRIBE language; going through one of its emulation modes is restrictive and problematic. So. I called the FinalWord BBS. There's a modem there, but nothing beyond it that responds. Hmmm... I called MOTU. They said that FW Corp. had always owned FW and *marketed it* through MOTU. The phone at FW Corp. is an answering machine. I left a message that has not yet yielded a response. MOTU also said that FW Corp. had shifted to marketing it through Borland, International. Well! Borland says: (a) What? or (b) We're not selling it at the moment; depending on who you talk to. How am I meant to keep in touch with other users of FinalWord to exchange printer definitions, etc? Are there any of you on *the net*? Has anyone ever seen this goofy DESCRIBE language outside of Kyocera? Am I losing my marbles? :-) -Jim Hickstein, VSAT Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA jxh@cup.portal.com ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com DISCLAIMER: Nothing at all to do with jj@cup.portal.com (the one who begs for money to continue his college education, and can't spell correctly while doing so). Portal is a service bureau.
johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine) (05/30/88)
In article <5992@cup.portal.com> jxh@cup.portal.com writes: >MOTU also said that FW Corp. had shifted to marketing it through Borland, >International. Well! Borland says: (a) What? or (b) We're not selling it at >the moment; depending on who you talk to. Usually reliable sources tell me that if Borland ever gets around to selling their Sprint word processor, it is really Final Word. Yet another fine Boston-area product is seduced out to California by Philippe's millions. -- John R. Levine, IECC, PO Box 349, Cambridge MA 02238-0349, +1 617 492 3869 { ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.something Rome fell, Babylon fell, Scarsdale will have its turn. -G. B. Shaw