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- From: x91clifton1@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Ami Pro Info?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.125908.5133@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 12:59:08 EST
- References: <xqmnj__@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Sep4.155354.29086@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- In article <1992Sep4.155354.29086@tamsun.tamu.edu>, pzs3761@tamsun.tamu.edu (Pete Sierant) writes:
- > In article <xqmnj__@lynx.unm.edu> gcasaus@leo.unm.edu (Greg Casaus) writes:
- >>Anybody heard if Lotus is planning to offer some upgrade path from Ami Pro
- >>for Windows to OS/2? Any ideas on pricing?
- >>
- >>Greg Casaus
- >
- > According to the Lotus person who took my order for Ami Pro 3.0 for Win,
- > the OS/2 version will be available "this year," the developers are "very
- > excited" about how the OS/2 version works, and depending on several factors
- > (timing,marketing, etc), the Ami Pro _3.0_ Win -> OS/2 upgrade will be a
- > $29, $49 or $79 "technical upgrade".
- >
- > Incidently, Ami Pro 3.0 works perfectly under OS/2 right now, both seemless
- > and full-screen (I run full screen for the speed), and I've been cutting,
- > pasting, importing and graphing up a storm for a month now. Oh yeah, you
- > can use it to write words, too. Defininetly the best by far of the huge
- > disk-hog, bloated pig memory eater style word processors.
- >
- > --
- > -- Pete -=[ pzs3761@tamsun.tamu.edu ]=-
- > Disclaimer: Neither you, I nor this posting exist. We are the end result
- > of a late night pizza locked in glorious battle with Bill Gates
- > neural and digestive systems. Please act accordingly.
-
- I installed AmiPro 3.0 under WinOS/2 and guess what--no help. Apparently Ami
- is backwardly compatable with Win 3.0 in every regard other than help file
- format, the WinOS/2 help engine (3.0 of course until this fall) simply does
- not understand Ami's help files.
-
- /Doug
- --
- Douglas Clifton [99clifto@lab.cc.wmich.edu]
-