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- DESQview 2.01 Technical Note
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- Running WordPerfect 5.0
-
- WordPerfect 5.0 runs quite well in DESQview and for the most part
- can be run using the same setup that DESQview 2.01 provides for
- WordPerfect with a few revisions.
-
- 1. Increase the "Memory Size in K" - This needs to be about
- 384K. If you are trying to get it to fit in a secondary
- DESQview partition that is 384K in size, you might be able to
- shave this figure by 15K or so, but 384K is pretty much the
- requirement. If you have more memory available, WordPerfect
- will probably run faster if given more. Generally, you would
- assign this on the Advanced Change a Program menu using the
- field "Maximum Program Memory Size in K". If you have plenty of
- memory, setting this to 512K would be appropriate.
-
- 2. Set "Displays Graphics Information" to Yes. Naturally, you
- need only do this if you have a graphics capable display adapter
- and intend to use the "View" feature of WordPerfect 5.0.
-
- 3. You may want to remove "NOFF.SHR" from "Shared Programs".
- The setup for WordPerfect 4.2 specified a Shared Program in the
- Advanced Change a Program called NOFF.SHR. This program
- corrected a problem of inefficiency in the way WordPerfect 4.2
- implemented DESQview compatibility with respect to writing to
- the screen. WordPerfect 5.0 seems to write to the screen more
- efficiently than version 4.2, but if you are a fast typist, or
- using a lot of DESQview macros, NOFF.SHR can speed things up.
- The only downside to using NOFF.SHR is that shared programs must
- be loaded in conventional memory, so if you have a program
- loaded in that takes all of conventional memory and then you try
- to load a window that uses a shared program, the first program
- must be swapped out.
-
- 4. Enhanced Keyboards. If you have an enhanced keyboard,
- WordPerfect 5.0 defines the F11 and F12 keys. Due to the way
- WordPerfect detects the enhanced keyboard, these keys lose
- their function when in DESQview. There is a simple work-around
- however. Create a DESQview macro in the WordPerfect window that
- defines the F11 key as an Alt-F3 and the F12 key as an Alt-F4.
- With this macro in place, these keys will work just as they do
- outside of DESQview.
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- 5. Underline on VGA Displays. If you have a VGA display,
- WordPerfect will show underline on the screen in text mode by
- modifying the VGA character set. If this feature is used in
- DESQview, other windows will also show the effect of the
- character set change since the actual hardware is being changed
- and hardware is "global". To avoid having this underlining
- effecting other windows, you should setup WordPerfect to display
- underlining as a color as WordPerfect 4.2 did.
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