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- From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Corel Draw 3.0 CD-ROM Edition (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
- Date: 5 Sep 1992 04:40:44 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
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- In a previous article, ken@minster.york.ac.uk () says:
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- >Tony Thomas (aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
- >: COREL DRAW 3.0
- >: CD-ROM Edition
- >:
- >: Reviewed by Tony Thomas
- >: file manager. To duplicate what is included in this package would cost
- >: double or triple the street price. It is easy to use, well integrated
- >: and will make you look great on paper, even if you have limited graphics
- >: skills. Five Stars *****
- >
- >What you don't say is that it's as buggy as hell. Half the time is bombs out
- >with a (what used to be called) UAE. I get all sorts of weird behaviours
- >(e.g. not being able to save or load files: I had to cut my drawing to the
- >clipboard as WMF, quit and restart, save the clipboard to a file, then
- >import it using the WMF filter). I've heard on the net that there is a new
- >version of 3.0. If you buy Corel make sure to get this. And there's no point
- >trying to mail them: my e-mail to support@corel.ca is "pending" (uucp
- >politely informed me that it would try for another few days to deliver the
- >mail). I'm _supposed_ to receive a free upgrade. Have I? You guess.
- >
- I've never experienced the bugs you describe in the above message. Are
- you sure it is a Corel problem? It could be a problem with Windows 3.X
- or with you hardware. With Windows, you have no way of knowing. Run
- Dr. Watson and see waht kind of messages you get.
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- TONY THOMAS - SIGop - Audio Arts SIG - Cleveland FreeNet
- "True riches is not what you have - It's the kind of person you are"
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