From: root@connect.com (Niles Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Word Perfect on AIX summary
Keywords: wp5.1 word perfect
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 11:00:41 EDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Connect Software, Morehead City, NC

jwb@burrow.adp.wisc.edu (Jeanne Blochwitz) writes:

> Here is a summary of the responses I received.  We have purchased WP5.1 for A
> received or installed it yet.   
> 
> Jeanne Blochwitz	
> Univeristy of Wisconin: Madison
> Inernet: jwb@burrow.adp.wisc.edu
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
> From: starrfie@hydro.la.asu.edu (Sumner Starrfield)
> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 10:46:55 MST
> Hi 
> We just last Friday installed wp5.1 on a Risc 6000 530h.  They
> have an educational program and it's price to ASU was 310 for an
> 8 person license.  We had no problem installing it, but their
> drivers for our printers ibm 4029's are a little clumsy and we
> had to do some work to get it to print correctly in postscript.
> hope this helps
> Sumner Starrfield
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: WP/AIX
> Jeanne,
> 
> I read the message you posted on comp.unix.aix.  Although I don't have
> the posting you are looking for, I'm very interested in receiving a
> copy of it in case you get it thru direct email.  I have just installed
> aix 3.2.3 over the weekend after a failed (and traumatic!) upgrade from
> v3.1.5.  Since then, my users have been unable to print WP documents.
> After two full days of calls to WPCorp and upgrading WordPerfect to
> have it working under aix 3.2.3., printing still doesn't work.  As a
> cheap and dirty trick, I'm letting users write to the device (I know
> this is crazy, but they have to keep going with their work...).
> If you get anything on this subject, or any other problems I may
> anticipate with the new version, could you please bounce me a copy?
> Thanks...
> 
> Yvete Barroso (decwrl!tcomeng.com!yvete)
> Telecommunications Enginnering Associates
> Communications Systems for Police, Fire & Emergency Medical Service 
> South San Francisco, CA (ph 415-877-5308)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 12:42:10 -0800
> From: Ed Richardson <ed@delfin.com>
> Subject: Re: Word Perfect on AIX
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
> Organization: Delfin Systems
> 
> I don't remember the posting, but we do have WP 5.1 running on our machines.
> It was just installed, but no problems so far.
> 
> We have Model 220s with AIX 3.2.3.
> 
> 
> 
> 

I was dropped into a site that had been running WP5.1 (AIX 3.1.?) for two
months without being able to print.  Sort of.  All lines of a document would
print on a single line at the top of the first page.  Period.  WP over the
phone wasn't much help.  However, it only took a couple of hours to fix,
user-by-user, by selecting valid print devices and a little bit of
empirical feedback.  (They had no idea what any of the physical device
names were.)  In the end, all users could print to any printer through
the queue.

I'd be happy to send the specific details to anyone who's interested.
Drop me a line at any of the addresses/numbers listed below.

Regards,

Niles Mills
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