MICROPRO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION Change Description for WS 5.0 Updates American WordStar Professional Release 5 Inline Update #091 Anomaly Corrections and Enhancements Description This is a description of the anomaly corrections and enhancements that appear in this first update and distinquish it from the original release (#085). This update fixes high priority anomalies that generated frequent calls to the Technical Support Group. PRODUCT CORRECTIONS AND ENHANCEMENTS Program disk 6 updated files: WS.EXE, WSMSGS.OVR, WSHELP.OVR, DRIVERN.OVR, DRIVERT.OVR, PRINT.TST WS.EXE Corrections: NEC P5 can now select "Proportional" font from ^P= menu--get "Proportional Cond" and LQ2500 can now select "Roman Prop" from ^P= menu--get "Roman Prop Cond" (.CW) now controls the character spacing for daisy wheel printers. Form Feed (^PL) with Repeat Prior Find Replace (^L) in document no longer gives screen registration, line/page number errors. Can now use .LQ to print letter quality with upward compatibility for WS 4.0 files without re-editing. (.LQ affects fonts selected by ^A, ^N, .CW...) ^QT now deletes past characters with high bits set. The superscript roll (.SR) default value changed from (80/1440") to (90/1440") "Ask for personal dictionary" is now asked everytime the dictionary is run. Misc problems in WSCHANGE also fixed. Attempt to enter a dot command while a in dot command line is no longer fatal. Page preview no longer changes program to non-document mode. Tabbing if no tabs in headers or footers is no longer fatal. Text following .lm2/.lm .10" will now start in the correct place. Headers and footers when beginning on page 2 are no longer scrambled. A block is no longer appended when file contains tab characters. Print time reforming of centered lines using DRAFT printer as been corrected. (see centered portion of PRINT.TST) Phantom blank & rubout now prints correctly with both fixed & prop fonts. Cursor registration is now corrected while fast typing in large paragraph with off-screen page break. Lotus file insert of GENERAL format and leading zero truncation is now handled correctly. Quattro (empty cells) has been handled correctly. Dbase merge print anomalies have been corrected. Block Mark/Save or abandon lock-up, effecting 384K.PAT, has been corrected. There is now support for sheet feeder bins >4. DRIVERN.OVR Divide overflow with sheet feeders: HP LaserJet and Brother HR40 w/CF500 installed as Diablo 630 w/F33 sheet feeder has been corrected. ^PQ, ^PW, ^PE, ^PR codes no longer print before preceding spaces. Horizontal spacing before pix tags and custom print controls has been fixed. Redundant CR before CRLF has been eliminated (INSET problems?) Daisy wheel printers' positioning has been corrected. Improved sheet feeder support Color strings set at 'correct' places Improved interface to INSET. Fixed Inset mixed font support and "over-struck character" anomaly. DRIVERT.OVR Correct custom print controls (print extras) handling fixed. PRINT.TST Aligns right column on right margin (See Pg.1 Ln 49) changed from (.CO2,.4") to (.CO2,.3") Removed DRAFT printer default. File will now print using the user's default printer. Fixed by deleting <@> (symmetrical sequence) on first line while in non-document mode. INSTALLATION disk (3 updated files) PRCHANGE.EXE, INSTALL.OVR, CHANGE.OVR PRCHANGE.EXE: Custom print controls (print extras) and Memory Allocation Problems fixed. INSTALL.OVR: AST, DOS 3.3 memory allocation failure fixed. CHANGE.OVR: AST, DOS 3.3 memory allocation failure fixed. PRINTER DATA BASES This Inline #091 data base required a third (Printer Data 3) release disk. Printer Data 1 contains all new and fixed non-laser printers. Printer Data 2 contains HP and HP style (clones) laser/page printers (with the exception of the non-laser HP DeskJet that did not fit on PRDATA 1). Printer Data 3 contains all the non-HP style laser/page printers. CORRECTIONS, ENHANCEMENTS, NEW PRINTERS ADDED: Printer Data 1: ASC256 Fixed Ascii 256, Custom, Preview, Simple, Typewriter, Xtract all were in the released version but incomplete. Made FPS and adjusted some values. AT&T 470/471/475/476 Fixed Fixed several problems, including substitution tables and miscellaneous erroneous values in the PDF. AUTOLF Fixed Made FPS and adjusted some values. Brother HR-10/-15/-25/-35 New Brother HR-20/-40 Fixed Fixed spacing, bidirectional printing, font selection, etc. C.Itoh 1550/8510 Fixed Fixed substitution tables and fonts. C.Itoh Starwriter F-10 Fixed Fixed spacing, etc. Citizen 120-D (Epson mode) Fixed Fixed bold and doublestrike problems. Both fonts and PDF affected. Custom Generic: Modifiable Fixed See ASC256 Diablo 630 Fixed Fixed spacing, bidirectional printing, font Selection. Diablo 630 ECS Fixed Fixed spacing, font selection, etc.. Diablo 630 with WP Options Fixed Fixed spacing, substitution, etc.. Diconix 300 InkJet (Epson mode) Enhanced Used UK version to get extended fonts. Epson FX-80 & FX-100 Fixed Fixed substitution, fonts Epson FX-85/-185/-286 Fixed Fixed substitution, fonts, menu name Epson FX86e/286e/EX800/1000 (Epson) Fixed Fixed substitution, fonts EPLQ0850 Epson LQ-850/1050 New Epson LQ-2500 Fixed Fixed minor flags. Underscore is a hardware problem. Epson LX-80 Fixed Fixed substitution Epson MX-80 & MX-100 Fixed Fixed substitution, line feeding, etc.. Epson RX-80 & RX-100 Fixed Fixed substitution, etc.. HP PaintJet New HP QuiteJet (IBM char set) Fixed Made FPS, fixed fonts and substitution. Fixed bold/doublestrike on some fonts. HP ThinkJet (IBM Mode) Fixed Fixed DNITproblems. Fixed some bold/doublestrike problems. IBM Quietwriter I/II (slow w/.uj) Fixed Bold bug was caused by these fonts being overwritten by the next entry. Additional minor fixes were made. Added feeders and notes. IBM Quietwriter I/II (fast no .uj) Fixed Added feeders and notes. Fixed PS. Juki 61 New Juki 6300 New NEC 8023A-N Fixed Fixed substitution table. NEC 8023A-C New NEC Spinwriter 2010/2030/8010 Fixed Fixed daisy problems. NEC Spinwriter 2015/3515/7715/8815 Fixed Fixed daisy problems. NEC Spinwriter 2050 Fixed Fixed daisy problems. Okidata 84 Step 2 Fixed Okidata 92/93 Fixed Fixed bold/doublestrike problem. Okidata 192/193 (IBM) Fixed Fixed some fonts. Okidata 292/293 Fixed Fixed proportional. Okidata 292/293 (IBM) Fixed Fixed proportional. Panasonic KX-P1091i Fixed Fixed some font strings. PREVIEW Diskfile: Formatted Fixed See ASC256 Qume Sprint 11+ Fixed Fixed daisy stuff. RICHO LP6000 New Silver Reed EXP-500 daisywheel New Silver Reed EXP-550 daisywheel Fixed Fixed daisy stuff. SIMPLE Generic: Modifiable Fixed See ASC256 Tandy DMP-130 (IBM mode) Fixed Tandy DMP-2100 New Tandy DMP-2100P (IBM mode) New Tandy DMP-2100P (Tandy mode) New Tandy DMP-2110 Fixed Tandy DMP-2110 (IBM mode) Fixed Texas Inst. TI855/865/857 Fixed Fixed delays. Toshiba P321SL/P341SL (IBM mode) New Toshiba P351 New Toshiba P351SX (IBM mode) New Toshiba P1340 Fixed Fixed fonts, substitution tables, etc... Toshiba P1351 Fixed Fixed fonts, substitution tables, etc... TYPEWR Generic: Backspacing Fixed See ASC256 XTRACT Diskfile: MailMerge use Fixed See ASC256. Outstanding bug (changing soft CR to hard CR) being investigated. PRINTER DATA 2: Brother HL-8 Laser (HPLJ+ mode) Enhanced Changed to support UK release. Hewlett-Packard DeskJet Fixed DNIT string, menu name, output device. Added flag for overprint doublestrike with offset to all fonts. Added standard/legal paper as feeders. HP LaserJet Models Enhanced Changed to support UK release. Okidata Laserline 6 Enhanced Changed to support UK release. Olivetti PG108 Laser New Panasonic KX-P4450 Laser Partner Enhanced Changed to support UK release. Disks affected: 6 Updated (5.25" 360kb) Disk Name Part # Date Code (on disk label & directory volume label) Program 5255A 8322 Installation/Customization 5256A 8322 Advanced Customization 5257B 8307 Printer Data 1 5258A 8322 Printer Data 2 5259B 8322 Printer Data 3 5268 8322 Disks affected: 4 updated (3.5" 720kb) Program/Advanced Page Preview 5271A 8322 Installation/Customization 5272B8322 Printer Data 1 & 2 5274A 8322 Printer Data 3/Dictionaries 5190 8322 (Spelling, Thesaurus, Definitions) American WordStar Professional Release 5 Inline Update #092 Anomaly Corrections and Enhancements Description INLINE DESCRIPTION: The improvements and corrections highlighted below are specific to the differ- ences between the Inline/#091 and the Inline/#092 and how they will effect the single user. PRODUCT CORRECTIONS AND ENHANCEMENTS: PREVIEW.OVR and WS.EXE have been modified to allow the main Preview program files to reside on the R/O program drive but font files to be created on the R/W shared drive. The EGA mono and the EGA 64K monitor problems have been fixed. LSRFONTS.EXE has had 2 anomalies fixed. The "Type Style Number" embedded at the front of each soft font file is now transferred correctly into the Printer Data Base and now all third party fonts are identified by their names instead of the cryptic "UNKNOWN 12/6". PATCH.LST has been corrected to adjust for the change of patch adresses during development. TUTOR: New stand alone Tutor corrects a number of Tutor anomalies. PRINTER DATA BASE Printer Data 1 contains all new and fixed non-laser printers. Printer Data 2 contains HP and HP style (clones) laser/page printers. Printer Data 3 contains all the non-HP style laser/page printers. (It also contains the non-laser HP DeskJet due to insufficient disk space on both Printer Data 1 and 2.) CORRECTIONS, ENHANCEMENTS, NEW PRINTERS ADDED ALPS P2000 (Epson mode) New CANON LBP-8 A1/A2 Fixed Fixed select strings for Line Printer and Courier 20 fonts. CITIZEN MSP-10 & MSP-20 Fixed Changed vert & horz position and FF string. Took out double underscore character. Selected LPT1 as printer output device. CORDATA LP-300 Fixed Changed FF string, took out double underscore, set page printer bit to 1. DICONIX 150 INKJET (EPSON MODE) Fixed Changed FF & quit job strings, took out double underscore. DICONIX 150 INKJET (IBM MODE) Fixed Changed FF & quit job strings, took out double underscore. DIGITAL (DEC) LA50 New EPSON FX-85/-185/-286 (FX-85 new in #092 Inline.) New EPSON GQ-3500 LASER Fixed Changed vert & horz position type, removed overscore, add quit job, changed output device, set page printer bit to 1. EPSON LQ-1500 VERSION 1.8 Fixed Changed to support the epson11 compose tables, corrected PS font widths, removed double underscore, changed FF type, select LPT1 EPSON LQ-1500 VERSION 2.0 Fixed Changed FF type, removed double underscore, add reset, new epson11 compose tables, corrected PS font width, select LPT1 as printer output device EPSON LQ-800 WITH ESC/P MODULE Fixed Changed FF type, corrected font width, changed order of ps fonts, select LPT1 EPSON LQ-800/1000 Fixed Changed FF type, removed double underscore, reset added to dnit, corrected font width, changed order of ps fonts, new epson13 compose tables, select LPT1 EPSON LQ-500 New EPSON LX800 New HP LASERJET IID New HP THINKJET (HP MODE) Fixed Removed underscore & double underscore, changed FF type, select LPT1, add R8 fonts and changed R8 font to map straight across, changed number of bold/double strikes, changed draft font mask IBM COLOR GRAPHICS 5182 Fixed Changed FF type, added text fonts, removed underscore & double underscore, select LPT1, fix language table IBM PC GRAPHICS PRINTER Fixed Removed underscore & double underscore, changed FF type, select LPT1 IBM PROPRINTER Fixed Changed vert & horz position, removed double underscore, changed FF type, select LPT1, fix language table IBM PROPRINTER II & XL Fixed changed FF type, removed double underscore, select LPT1, corrected translation tables (wrap-around problem) IBM PROPRINTER X24/XL24 Fixed changed FF type & vert position, removed double underscore, select LPT1, corrected translation tables (wrap-around problem) IBM PROPRINTER III/III XL New IBM QUIETWRITER III Fixed changed FF type, removed underscore & double underscore, select LPT1, correct translation tables (wrap-around problem) IBM WHEELPRINTER 5216 Fixed changed FF type, removed underscore & double underscore, select LPT1 IBM WHEELPRINTER E Fixed changed FF type, removed underscore & double underscore, select LPT1 KYOCERA F-1000 LASER (HPLJ SERIES II) Fixed Fixed PC-8 & R-8 tables, portrait/landscape, FF type, Removed italics, Added feeder support MANNESMANN TALLY MT160/MT180 Fixed changedd vert position type, added ^M to FF string, quit job, removed underscore NEC P2-P3 -3 OR -6 Fixed changed FF type & compose table, removed underscore & double underscore, removed reset from quit job, corrected width NEC P2200 Fixed changed FF type, order of ps fonts, removed double underscore & reset from quit job, select LPT1 NEC P5/5XL/6/7 Fixed changed FF type, removed underscore & double underscore, select LPT1 changed color menu, changed order of ps fonts NEC P5200/P5300 Fixed Removed double underscore OKIDATA 2410 Fixed changed FF type, quit job, vert move types, complete color table OKIDATA 393 "PERSONALITY H" Fixed changed FF string, quite job string, removed vert up/down, order of ps fonts, corrected widths OKIDATA 84/92/93 (IBM) Fixed Changed vertical position type, quit job string, add FF string OKIDATA ML182/183 Fixed changed FF string, changed Inset driver name to "Okidata" OKIDATA ML182/183 (IBM) Fixed changed vert & horz move types, FF string, add quit job string OKIDATA OKIMATE 20 (IBM) Fixed changed vert & horz move types, FF string, quit job string OLYMPIA LASERSTAR 6 (DIABLO MODE) Fixed Changed FF string, removed double underscore PANASONIC KX-1090 Fixed Changed FF string, quit job, removed double underscore PANASONIC KX-P1091 Fixed Changed FF string, quit job, removed double underscore PANASONIC KX-P1091 (IBM MODE) Fixed Changed FF & quit job strings, reset added to job dnit, removed double underscore, ESC characters mapped straight across in compose table PANASONIC KX-P1091I (IBM PRO MODE) Fixed Changed FF & quit job string, removed double underscore PANASONIC KX-P1092 New PANASONIC KX-P1524 (Diablo mode) New PANASONIC KX-P1524 (Epson LQ) New PANASONIC KX-1524 (IBM mode) New PANASONIC KX-1592 New PANASONIC KX-P1595 (IBM mode) New RICOH LP4080R Fixed changed vert position type, FF string, microjust value, select LPT1, set page printer bit STAR GEMINI 10X & 15X Fixed changed FF string, VMI move type, removed double underscore STAR NB24-10/-15 (IBM MODE) Fixed Removed double underscore, changed line height STAR ND-10/15 Fixed Changed FF type, order of ps fonts, removed double underscore, fixed double strike & compose tables STAR NX/NL/ND-10/-15 Fixed Changed FF & quit job string, changed menu name, removed double underscore STAR NX-1000 (IBM mode) New STAR RADIX-10/15 Fixed changed FF & quit job string, removed double underscore, fix bold & dstrike STAR SB-10 Fixed Changed FF & quit job strings STAR SD-SG-SR-10/15 (IBM) Fixed changed FF & quit job string, removed double underscore STAR SD-SG-SR-10/15 (STAR) Fixed Changed FF & quit job string, removed double underscore, fonts attributes TANDY DMP-130 Fixed changed FF type & quit job, select LPT1, changed vert position type TANDY DWP-230 (IBM mode) New TANDY DWP-230 (Tandy mode) New TOSHIBA P321/341/341e New TOSHIBA Pagelaser 12 (HP+ mode) New Disks affected: 11 (5.25" 360kb) Disk Name Part # Date Code (on disk label & directory volume label) 9 updated: Program 5255-B8356 Installation/Customization 5256-B8356 Advanced Customization 5257-C8356 Advanced Page Preview 5261-A8356 PostScript Files/Font Utility 5266-A8350 ProFinder 5263-A8347 Printer Data 1 5258-B8356 Printer Data 2 5259-C8356 Printer Data 3 5268-A8356 2 new : Tutor 1 5183 8353 Tutor 2 5184 8353 Disks affected: 7 (3.5" 720kb) 6 updated:Program/Advanced Page Preview 5271-B8356 Installation/Customization 5272-C8356 Printer Data 1 & 2 5274-B8356 Printer Data 3/Dictionaries 5190-A8356 (Spelling, Thesaurus, Definitions) MailList/TelMerge/PC-Outline/ 5275-A8347 ProFinder PostScript Files/Font Utility 5174 8356 1 new: Tutor 5191 8353 American WordStar Professional Release 5 Inline Update Inline # 093 Anomaly Corrections and Enhancements Description INLINE DESCRIPTION: This description contains the anomaly corrections that distinquish this update (#093) from update (#092). This is an update to the WS.EXE file (#Ameri- can 093) only. PRODUCT CORRECTIONS: Two PDF pathing anomalies found in the WS.EXE (#092) file have now been cor- rected: 1) When editing and printing a file in window #2, WS was using the PDF from the file in window #1. 2) In WINSTALL or WSCHANGE when entering a drive letter where PDF's can be found the program would halt. Disks Affected: 1 (5.25" 360kb) Disk Name Part #Date Code (on disk label & directory volume label) Program 5255C 9009 Disks Affected: 1 (3.5" 720kb) Program/Advanced Page Preview 5271C9009