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- POTENTIAL PROBLEMS WITH MEMORY RESIDENT PROGRAMS:
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- Being able to launch other applications from Contact Plus while in
- memory resident mode can have problems. If you intend on launching
- normal (non-memory resident) programs using the F5 key you will be ok.
- If you try launching a memory resident program, you will most likely
- crash your machine and lose some valuable information.
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- Do not load memory resident programs after pressing F5 (DOS) key.
- This will cause unpredictable results and your machine will probably
- crash. Sample scenario: you hotkey to Contact Plus and then wish to
- launch DOS by pressing F5. You go to the DOS prompt fine then run
- SideKick or any other memory resident program. This is the point where
- your system will probably crash.
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- RUNNING ONE PROGRAM TWICE
- Do not try running your word processing program twice. The following
- sample scenario will illustrate the problem:
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- 1) You are running WordPerfect, then decide to hotkey to
- Contact Plus.
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- 2) You press the hotkey which launches Contact Plus. Contact
- Plus launches successfully.
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- 3) While in Contact Plus, you decide to write one of your
- contacts a letter using the F6 (WP) key. The F6 key
- happens to run WordPerfect again!
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- 4) If you are running WP 5.1 you should get a meesage
- "ARE THERE ANY OTHER COPIES OF WORDPERFECT RUNNING? (Yes/No)?"
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- Make sure to answer "YES" then select a directory for
- WordPerfect. If you tell a lie and answer "NO", the
- machine will likely crash.
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- GRAPHIC PROGRAMS
- Contact Plus can pop up over many graphic applications. There may be
- problems with certain graphic applications which change the EGA/VGA
- palette registers. What will happen is Contact Plus will launch when
- the hot key is pressed, the graphic screen will be temporarily stored
- on the hard disk or EMS, Contact Plus will then run. Once Contact Plus
- is finished, the graphic screen is displayed again. The colors on some
- graphic programs may be changed, this normally can be remedied by
- re-displaying the graphic screen. Otherwise, you may not be able to
- launch Contact Plus while running that particular application.
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- DOS SHELLS and MENU PROGRAMS
- These programs create a menu-based program selection environment which
- is more intuitive than the normal DOS commands. To run Contact Plus
- with a DOS shell, load Contact Plus BEFORE you load the Shell.
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- MOUSE DRIVERS
- Make sure to load Contact Plus AFTER any mouse driver is loaded.
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- NETWORKED COMPUTERS
- Make sure that you load Contact Plus AFTER any network driver is
- installed.
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- LOADING INTO HIGH MEMORY
- Contact Plus CANNOT be loaded into HIGH memory at this point.
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- WORDPROCESSING
- If you have an EGA or VGA monitor and are running WordPerfect, you
- cannot use the extended 28, 43 or 50 line text modes. The memory
- resident version of Contact Plus will NOT work properly with
- WordPerfect in any non-standard mode. This is probably true with
- any other word processor that changes the standard display fonts.
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