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- PROBLEMS WITH VIEW 9.6?
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- PROBLEM: You try to print a file via JETCOL or 2COL but nothing happens -
- the display just returns to the VIEW screen.
-
- POSSIBLE REASONS:
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- 1. You don't have JETCOL or 2COL!
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- 2. You have JETCOL or 2COL, but you have not left enough memory free for it
- to run. Go to the configuration program VW95CFG.COM and reconfigure VIEW to
- have at least 50 memory blocks reserved. You may get away with 49, you may
- need 51 - experiment! ALTERNATIVELY: re-run VIEW using the /mem command
- line switch to allocate (temporarily) more memory for JETCOL/2COL.
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- 3. You have JETCOL or 2COL, and you have enough memory allocated for it,
- but it is not referenced in your PATH statement. Either edit your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file to put the drive and directory where you keep JETCOL or
- 2COL in the path, or, from VIEW, enter the full path when asked to enter
- your command line parameters.
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- PROBLEM: VIEW behaves in a strange fashion - keys don't work, or the
- display is garbled.
-
- POSSIBLE REASONS:
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- 1. The VIEW.EXE file has become damaged. Re-install from the ZIP file.
-
- 2. You have not allocated enough memory blocks. The configuration program
- allows you to go as low as 8, but that may not be enough. Try increasing
- the memory allocation units reserved until VIEW works properly. The number
- may depend on how much memory you have installed on your system, what TSRs
- you have running, whether or not not you are running under a network, for
- example. I find that allocating 12 units allows VIEW to run without
- problems.
-
- 3. You have configured VIEW for fast display but you have an
- incompatible video card (this is more and more unlikely unless you
- have an old card, or a card in an AT&T or Olivetti machine).
- Reconfigure VIEW to disable fast video.
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- 4. You see "snow" on the screen. This means you have configured
- for fast video but your video card is just not fast enough to keep
- up with the display (this happens with CGA cards). Reconfigure VIEW
- to disable fast video display.
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- PROBLEM: VIEW does not properly decode Word for Windows 6 files.
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- REASON: I have developed an algorithm for decoding WinWord 6 files, but
- these files are very complex. Please report any problems you might have.
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- PROBLEM: I am running VIEW on a 132 column screen but the menu display does
- not properly clear when I exit the menu.
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- REASON: As shipped, VIEW is "hard wired" not to try to detect what display
- parameters you are using (i.e. rows and columns). This is because
- there are some video cards that apparently do not use standard
- means for reporting their current mode. Configure VIEW, using the
- configuration program, to use "fast video". In this mode, VIEW
- does query your video card to get its current display mode.
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