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MICROPRO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Change Description for WS 5.0 Updates
American WordStar Professional Release 5
Inline Update #091
Anomaly Corrections and Enhancements Description
This is a description of the anomaly corrections and enhancements that appear
in this first update and distinquish it from the original release (#085). This
update fixes high priority anomalies that generated frequent calls to the
Technical Support Group.
PRODUCT CORRECTIONS AND ENHANCEMENTS
Program disk 6 updated files:
WS.EXE, WSMSGS.OVR, WSHELP.OVR, DRIVERN.OVR, DRIVERT.OVR, PRINT.TST
WS.EXE Corrections:
NEC P5 can now select "Proportional" font from ^P= menu--get "Proportional
Cond" and LQ2500 can now select "Roman Prop" from ^P= menu--get "Roman Prop
Cond"
(.CW) now controls the character spacing for daisy wheel printers.
Form Feed (^PL) with Repeat Prior Find Replace (^L) in document no longer
gives screen registration, line/page number errors.
Can now use .LQ to print letter quality with upward compatibility for WS 4.0
files without re-editing. (.LQ affects fonts selected by ^A, ^N, .CW...)
^QT now deletes past characters with high bits set.
The superscript roll (.SR) default value changed from (80/1440") to (90/1440")
"Ask for personal dictionary" is now asked everytime the dictionary is run.
Misc problems in WSCHANGE also fixed.
Attempt to enter a dot command while a in dot command line is no longer fatal.
Page preview no longer changes program to non-document mode.
Tabbing if no tabs in headers or footers is no longer fatal.
Text following .lm2/.lm .10" will now start in the correct place.
Headers and footers when beginning on page 2 are no longer scrambled.
A block is no longer appended when file contains tab characters.
Print time reforming of centered lines using DRAFT printer as been corrected.
(see centered portion of PRINT.TST)
Phantom blank & rubout now prints correctly with both fixed & prop fonts.
Cursor registration is now corrected while fast typing in large paragraph with
off-screen page break.
Lotus file insert of GENERAL format and leading zero truncation is now handled
correctly.
Quattro (empty cells) has been handled correctly.
Dbase merge print anomalies have been corrected.
Block Mark/Save or abandon lock-up, effecting 384K.PAT, has been corrected.
There is now support for sheet feeder bins >4.
DRIVERN.OVR
Divide overflow with sheet feeders: HP LaserJet and Brother HR40 w/CF500
installed as Diablo 630 w/F33 sheet feeder has been corrected.
^PQ, ^PW, ^PE, ^PR codes no longer print before preceding spaces. Horizontal
spacing before pix tags and custom print controls has been fixed.
Redundant CR before CRLF has been eliminated (INSET problems?)
Daisy wheel printers' positioning has been corrected.
Improved sheet feeder support
Color strings set at 'correct' places
Improved interface to INSET. Fixed Inset mixed font support and "over-struck
character" anomaly.
DRIVERT.OVR Correct custom print controls (print extras) handling fixed.
PRINT.TST Aligns right column on right margin (See Pg.1 Ln 49) changed from
(.CO2,.4") to (.CO2,.3")
Removed DRAFT printer default. File will now print using the user's default
printer. Fixed by deleting <@> (symmetrical sequence) on first line while in
non-document mode.
INSTALLATION disk (3 updated files) PRCHANGE.EXE, INSTALL.OVR, CHANGE.OVR
PRCHANGE.EXE: Custom print controls (print extras) and Memory Allocation
Problems fixed.
INSTALL.OVR: AST, DOS 3.3 memory allocation failure fixed.
CHANGE.OVR: AST, DOS 3.3 memory allocation failure fixed.
PRINTER DATA BASES
This Inline #091 data base required a third (Printer Data 3) release disk.
Printer Data 1 contains all new and fixed non-laser printers.
Printer Data 2 contains HP and HP style (clones) laser/page printers (with the
exception of the non-laser HP DeskJet that did not fit on PRDATA 1).
Printer Data 3 contains all the non-HP style laser/page printers.
CORRECTIONS, ENHANCEMENTS, NEW PRINTERS ADDED:
Printer Data 1:
ASC256 Fixed
Ascii 256, Custom, Preview, Simple, Typewriter, Xtract all were in the
released version but incomplete. Made FPS and adjusted some values.
AT&T 470/471/475/476 Fixed
Fixed several problems, including substitution tables and miscellaneous
erroneous values in the PDF.
AUTOLF Fixed
Made FPS and adjusted some values.
Brother HR-10/-15/-25/-35 New
Brother HR-20/-40 Fixed
Fixed spacing, bidirectional printing, font selection, etc.
C.Itoh 1550/8510 Fixed
Fixed substitution tables and fonts.
C.Itoh Starwriter F-10 Fixed
Fixed spacing, etc.
Citizen 120-D (Epson mode) Fixed
Fixed bold and doublestrike problems. Both fonts and PDF affected.
Custom Generic: Modifiable Fixed
See ASC256
Diablo 630 Fixed
Fixed spacing, bidirectional printing, font Selection.
Diablo 630 ECS Fixed
Fixed spacing, font selection, etc..
Diablo 630 with WP Options Fixed
Fixed spacing, substitution, etc..
Diconix 300 InkJet (Epson mode) Enhanced
Used UK version to get extended fonts.
Epson FX-80 & FX-100 Fixed
Fixed substitution, fonts
Epson FX-85/-185/-286 Fixed
Fixed substitution, fonts, menu name
Epson FX86e/286e/EX800/1000 (Epson) Fixed
Fixed substitution, fonts
EPLQ0850
Epson LQ-850/1050 New
Epson LQ-2500 Fixed
Fixed minor flags. Underscore is a hardware problem.
Epson LX-80 Fixed
Fixed substitution
Epson MX-80 & MX-100 Fixed
Fixed substitution, line feeding, etc..
Epson RX-80 & RX-100 Fixed
Fixed substitution, etc..
HP PaintJet New
HP QuiteJet (IBM char set) Fixed
Made FPS, fixed fonts and substitution. Fixed bold/doublestrike on some
fonts.
HP ThinkJet (IBM Mode) Fixed
Fixed DNITproblems. Fixed some bold/doublestrike problems.
IBM Quietwriter I/II (slow w/.uj) Fixed
Bold bug was caused by these fonts being overwritten by the next entry.
Additional minor fixes were made. Added feeders and notes.
IBM Quietwriter I/II (fast no .uj) Fixed
Added feeders and notes. Fixed PS.
Juki 61 New
Juki 6300 New
NEC 8023A-N Fixed
Fixed substitution table.
NEC 8023A-C New
NEC Spinwriter 2010/2030/8010 Fixed
Fixed daisy problems.
NEC Spinwriter 2015/3515/7715/8815 Fixed
Fixed daisy problems.
NEC Spinwriter 2050 Fixed
Fixed daisy problems.
Okidata 84 Step 2 Fixed
Okidata 92/93 Fixed
Fixed bold/doublestrike problem.
Okidata 192/193 (IBM) Fixed
Fixed some fonts.