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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. 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 t
- the screen. WordPerfect 5.0 seems to write to the screen
- quite efficiently without the use of the NOFF.SHR program.
-
- 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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