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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!diku!joker
- From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Word Perfect under OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.234309.18911@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 23:43:09 GMT
- References: <568RPB1w164w@gorilla.nbn.com>
- Sender: joker@freja.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 40
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- holmes@gorilla.nbn.com (Tim Holmes) writes:
-
- >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?
-
-
- >
-
- >==========================================================================
- >Tim Holmes holmes@gorilla.nbn.com San Rafael, CA
- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Hi there...
-
- It makes a hell of a difference HOW you tell WP to read a ASCII file!!!
-
- If you use F5 (filelist) and select 1 (Load document or something like
- that), it will take minor eternity to read. The best way is Ctrl-F5 1 and
- 2/3, which immidiatly tells WP that it's a DOS file. It's about 3 times
- faster on my 486-50!!!
-
- It beats me, why the difference is so large, but I guess a WP Corp.
- programmer must have had a VERY bad day when he made this ;-)
-
- Christian
- --
- M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
- student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
- "Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
-