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- From: ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Word Perfect under OS/2
- Message-ID: <ignacij.714281920@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 03:38:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: meishan.ignacij.714281920
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- holmes@gorilla.nbn.com (Tim Holmes) writes:
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- >When I use WP 5.1 under OS/2, it has a very hard time opening
- >text files. Little ones will eventually open, but with large ones,
- >say over 80k, WP says "DOS text conversion in progress", but it
- >just sits there for minutes (or longer, I haven't waited) with
- >no hard disk accesses or anything. I went through it with
- >IBM Tech Support in Florida, and they were able to duplicate the problem,
- >but it was kind of left as, "well, you should call back and see if
- >there's any news, this report will be automatically erased in
- >28 days." Didn't inspire too much confidence.
-
- >There must be people running WP under OS/2. This seems like a
- >pretty major bug. I hope this one isn't just erased after 28 days.
- >Anybody out there have this problem? Or a work around for it?
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- >
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- >Tim Holmes holmes@gorilla.nbn.com San Rafael, CA
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- Is your WP in the HPFS partition? In my case, the spelling checker
- lockups WP51, but only if it is on HPFS and not FAT.
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- Ignacy Misztal E-mail: ignacy@uiuc.edu
- University of Illinois Phone: (217) 244-3164
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