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DESQview 2.01 Technical Note
Running WordPerfect 5.0
WordPerfect 5.0 runs quite well in DESQview and for the most part
can be run using the same setup that DESQview 2.01 provides for
WordPerfect with a few revisions.
1. Increase the "Memory Size in K" - This needs to be about
384K. If you are trying to get it to fit in a secondary
DESQview partition that is 384K in size, you might be able to
shave this figure by 15K or so, but 384K is pretty much the
requirement. If you have more memory available, WordPerfect
will probably run faster if given more. Generally, you would
assign this on the Advanced Change a Program menu using the
field "Maximum Program Memory Size in K". If you have plenty of
memory, setting this to 512K would be appropriate.
2. Set "Displays Graphics Information" to Yes. Naturally, you
need only do this if you have a graphics capable display adapter
and intend to use the "View" feature of WordPerfect 5.0.
3. You may want to remove "NOFF.SHR" from "Shared Programs".
The setup for WordPerfect 4.2 specified a Shared Program in the
Advanced Change a Program called NOFF.SHR. This program
corrected a problem of inefficiency in the way WordPerfect 4.2
implemented DESQview compatibility with respect to writing to
the screen. WordPerfect 5.0 seems to write to the screen more
efficiently than version 4.2, but if you are a fast typist, or
using a lot of DESQview macros, NOFF.SHR can speed things up.
The only downside to using NOFF.SHR is that shared programs must
be loaded in conventional memory, so if you have a program
loaded in that takes all of conventional memory and then you try
to load a window that uses a shared program, the first program
must be swapped out.
4. Enhanced Keyboards. If you have an enhanced keyboard,
WordPerfect 5.0 defines the F11 and F12 keys. Due to the way
WordPerfect detects the enhanced keyboard, these keys lose
their function when in DESQview. There is a simple work-around
however. Create a DESQview macro in the WordPerfect window that
defines the F11 key as an Alt-F3 and the F12 key as an Alt-F4.
With this macro in place, these keys will work just as they do
outside of DESQview.
5. Underline on VGA Displays. If you have a VGA display,
WordPerfect will show underline on the screen in text mode by
modifying the VGA character set. If this feature is used in
DESQview, other windows will also show the effect of the
character set change since the actual hardware is being changed
and hardware is "global". To avoid having this underlining
effecting other windows, you should setup WordPerfect to display
underlining as a color as WordPerfect 4.2 did.
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