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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 10:32:00 EST
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- From: DICK@SIENA
- Subject: RE: NB and Desqview
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
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- Yes,
- I too have discovered a series of bugs. I think I have a "final copy".
- As a beta tester I begged them for a a copy sent overnight UPS back in mid
- August. My copy is dated 8/13. Let's list these little devils to get them
- expunged: (I'd rather squash bugs right now than NBI)
- I have Lingua (which I use mostly) on a 486. Here are my top bugs:
- 1. Yesterday I tried to save a large file to disk; there was insufficient space
- on the disk (I forget about those .bak files!). The error message was WRITE
- ERROR. I then erased some files and then saved successfully. All day I worked,
- saved, and backed up. At the last minute I realized I had lost about ten pages
- from the end of the document. That truncated document was copied into all my
- saves. Apparently that bad save attempt caused me to lose my RAM drive
- overflow and thus part of my file. That should never happen. What's wrong with
- the simple DOS error BEFORE you attempt to save: INSUFFICIENT DISK SPACE.
-
- 2. When you try to bold a word that has "constructed characters in it" (e.g. S
- with a dot under it) using control shift 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 etc., it will stop at
- the constructed letter and not act on the entire word. For that you have to
- block of the word with F2 and then cntrl #.
-
- 3. The dictionary (speller) cannot deal with smart quotes (control ").
-
- 4. Sometimes (I haven't figured out the pattern) when you do a letter F6 and
- the W, D, B or whatever to construct a letter, I also get an extra letter
- afterwards.
-
- 5. I still get an occasional US.1 delta and CR when I try to open up a
- footnote with F3. This was a regular bug before, but now it only happens once
- in 50 notes. (You can go into expanded mode and delete this garbage).
-
- 6. There are problems in my version with the printer driver for HP softfonts.
- The program calls up the wrong .ovl file; but I think they corrected this
- before shipping.
-
- Michael Dick
- DICK@SIENA
-