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- PROBLEMS WITH VIEW 12.1?
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- PROBLEM: You try to print a file via JETCOL or 2COL but nothing happens -
- the display just returns to the VIEW screen.
-
- POSSIBLE REASONS:
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- 1. You don't have JETCOL or 2COL!
-
- 2. You have JETCOL or 2COL, but you have not left enough memory free for it
- to run. Go to the configuration program VIEWCFG.COM and reconfigure
- VIEW to have at least 50 memory blocks reserved. You may get away
- with 49, you may need 51 - experiment! ALTERNATIVELY: re-run VIEW
- using the /mem command line switch to allocate (temporarily) more memory
- for JETCOL/2COL.
-
- 3. You have JETCOL or 2COL, and you have enough memory allocated for it,
- but it is not referenced in your PATH statement. Either edit your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file to put the drive and directory where you keep JETCOL or
- 2COL in the path, or, from VIEW, enter the full path when asked to enter
- your command line parameters.
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- PROBLEM: VIEW behaves in a strange fashion - keys don't work, or the
- display is garbled.
-
- POSSIBLE REASONS:
-
- 1. The VIEW.EXE file has become damaged. Re-install from the ZIP file.
-
- 2. You have not allocated enough memory blocks. The configuration program
- allows you to go as low as 13, but that may not be enough. Try increasing
- the memory allocation units reserved until VIEW works properly. The
- number may depend on how much memory you have installed on your system,
- what TSRs you have running, whether or not not you are running under a
- network, for example. I find that allocating 15 units allows VIEW to run
- without problems.
-
- 3. You have configured VIEW for fast display but you have an
- incompatible video card (this is more and more unlikely unless you
- have an old card, or a card in an AT&T or Olivetti machine).
- Reconfigure VIEW to disable fast video.
-
- 4. You see "snow" on the screen. This means you have configured
- for fast video but your video card is just not fast enough to keep
- up with the display (this happens with CGA cards). Reconfigure VIEW
- to disable fast video display.
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- PROBLEM: VIEW does not properly decode Word for Windows 6 files.
-
- REASON: I have developed an algorithm for decoding WinWord 6 files, but
- these files are very complex. Please report any problems you have.
- in particular, VIEW cannot as yet decode properly Word 6 files
- saved using the "quick save" feature.
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- PROBLEM: I am running VIEW on a 132 column screen but the menu display
- does not properly clear when I exit the menu.
-
- REASON: As shipped, VIEW is "hard wired" not to try to detect what
- display parameters you are using (i.e. rows and columns). This is
- because there are some video cards that apparently do not use standard
- means for reporting their current mode. Configure VIEW,
- using the configuration program, to use "fast video". In this
- mode, VIEW does query your video card to get its current
- display mode.
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- PROBLEM: I saved a file in the "save for word processor" format, but my
- word processor will not import it, or says "unknown format".
-
- REASON: Not all word processors will import files that are not in their
- own format. If you see the "unknown format" message, try editing
- the file you are trying to import using an ASCII editor such as
- BOXER. Put a few lines of garbage, with hard returns, at the
- beginning of the file. Your word processor should now recognize it
- as an ASCII file and import it. You can then delete the lines of
- garbage.
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- PROBLEM: I saved a file in the "save for word processor" format but when I
- import it there are gaps in the lines.
-
- REASON: Unfortunately, there is not much you can do about this, because it
- means that the original file had spaces at the beginning of lines.
-
- Note for registered users:
- Try saving the file to ASCII format (if it is not already an ASCII
- file), then converting it with the utility STRIPIT, which is
- included in the package sent to registered users. STRIPIT removes
- blanks and tabs from the beginning and end of lines.
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- PROBLEM: When I try to read a file that I know is ASCII (for example, an
- overflow file written when VIEW reads a big file), I get the
- "format unknown" message.
-
- REASON: Chances are that there are some high order ASCII characters at the
- beginning of the file. VIEW attempts to differentiate ASCII from
- non-ASCII files by looking at the first part of a file, but
- occasionally it reports this message for what genuinely is an
- ASCII file. Simply select F1 (view as ASCII) and F2 (use file's
- settings) to view the file.
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- PROBLEM: When I try to read a file that I know is HTML, it displays
- instead as "plain text".
-
- REASON: VIEW uses strict checking for HTML files; in particular, for the
- program to recognize them, the first character MUST be <. Some
- HTML files have CR/LF sequences at the beginning. To view them as
- decoded HTML, use a text editor to remove these sequences.
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