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From: adamsr@netcom.com (Rick Adams)
Subject: Laptop/WP TSRs wanted
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 17:26:53 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

	I'm looking for a driver/tsr that will provide one or both of the
following features on an EGA laptop using WP5.1:

	1. Block cursor (underline is impossible to find, and standard tsrs
which deal with cursors are defeated by the WP5.1 driver).

	2. Line length>80 characters.

	I know there is at least one commercial product available that will
do this, but I'm not sure which one. Also there is supposed to be a
shareware product which will perform the same function - and its name (and
an ftp site if known) would be greatly appreciated! 

	Hopefully, given the popularity of laptops for WP, the 6.0 release
will provide such drivers for those of us who don't have VGA screens.

	Thanks,

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From:         ERIC PETERSON 215-597-1650 <PETERSON.ERIC@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Tab sets and product suggestions...
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          After piling through 30 messages waiting in my inbox, I thought I'd
          comment on a couple of 'em:

          1.  The Tab Set editing problem - for this and also for editing
          Column definitions, I tell my students to:

               a.   Park the cursor BELOW the code somewhere.
               b.   Use Reverse Search (Shift-F2) to find the code.  Now your
                    cursor is the right place to edit it.
               c.   Edit the tabs (using Alt-arrows, Ctrl-arrows, etc).
               d.   Get out of tab set, then press your left arrow once.
               e.   Turn on Reveal Codes
               f.   Your cursor should be on top of the correct tab code.
                    Press Backspace until all other tab codes next to it (to
                    the left) are gone.

               Clunky, but with the present setup, I haven't come up with
          anything better.  Of course, you don't have to delete the old ones,
          and it will still work, because the reverse search will find the
          last one in the heap and park after it, but for form's sake.  And
          of course the students don't usually incorporate this technique
          into their work, but at least I can say I've tried.

          2.   Calling up WordPerfect Corp. and making a product improvement
          suggestion - what I understand is each suggestion is logged in, and
          when they get over 100 of the same suggestion, they work on
          incorporating it (even if they never thought it was a good idea).
          So if you have a bee in your bonnet, call 100 times using different
          names and disguise your voice.

               	    Eric Peterson, CSC/EPA, Philadelphia, PA
               	    "When in doubt, RYFM"
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From:         Tom Dolan <Dolan@ACUVAX.ACU.EDU>
Subject:      RE:Facelift
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In Message Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:44:03 EDT,
  "George H. W. Christie -SUNY - HSC Syracuse" writes:

>We have an HP II with one cartridge available.  Finances preclude the purchase
>of additional cartridges at this time.  I recently heard of a relatively
>inexpensive program called "Facelift".  What experience has anyone had
>with this program? I understand that one does not have to go through
>the time consuming creation of fonts as you do with Bitstream.  Is this,
>in fact, the case?
>

We use Facelift with nine HPLJ series II's and three series III's.  It is
correct you do not have to "precreate" the fonts - Facelift creates them
"on the fly".  We like the scaleable on-the-fly fonts, Bitstream fonts are
impeccable quality.  You will need to make sure you have enough RAM in your
computer to display complicated pages in View Document and enough printer
memory to hold several fonts at one time.  Some of our users who produce
flyers have had to install more RAM and printer memory - others using
Facelift with simple documents have NOT had to install more memory.  We
have found Facelift easy to install and operate.

Tom Dolan           Dolan@Acuvax.acu.edu
Systems Manager
College of Biblical Studies
Abilene Christian University
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From:         ERIC PETERSON 215-597-1650 <PETERSON.ERIC@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>
Subject:      RE: Onboard Parity Error
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          RE: Parity error in WP

          Parity errors are usually a problem with the machine - one of the
          chips has gone bad on the motherboard or something (I'm a software
          person, guys, give me a break).  I would say to run any diagnostics
          that came with the machine.

          Eric Peterson, CSC/EPA, Philadelphia, PA
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From:         "Ms. Lucia Asturias - Getting fitter?" <LUCIA@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Subject:      print from list file -v.2

Thanks Charlie, HTH, Jay & Carrothe for your help.  BUT, ooops...

The thing is I forgot to mention that the files listed were produced by a user
with a laser printer driver,  and I'm sending them to print to a postcript.

Soorry, my mistake...
Therefore what I NEED is to retrieve each file first, send it to print...then
go back to the list choose next file, retrieve and send to print...for the
100 odd files in each of the 4/5 diskettes....that's why I need a macro with
loop to go down the list......
I didn't make it clear.

Most of you are right, though,
I had tried marking the files from the list and send them to print, but that
would work perfect (ie. leave it and go for dinner as someone suggested)only if
the files had been created using the printer driver for the postcript that I
have...

Anyway, Charlie, i'll try your suggested macro and if you think you can add
any more ideas, let me know.

Thanks again!

Lucia
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From: conibear@sol.carleton.ca (Dave Conibear)
Subject: Re: Onboard Parity Error
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:06:45 GMT

Just to make sure that its memory is working okay, your computer uses
something called a parity check.

For every number that is in your computer's memory (every group of 1's
and 0's), the computer also remembers whether the number contains an
EVEN or an ODD number of 1's.

When a computer reports a parity error, it's saying:  there's a spot
in memory where I was expecting an EVEN number of 1's, but now I see
an ODD number (or vice versa).

The ADDRESS reported by the computer (a series of numbers and -
sometimes - letters, like this:  2088:3FA1) is a message that a
technical type can use to figure out which memory chip had the
problem.  Write it down, and find a computer repair guy (or gal).

Dave Q. Conibear
conibear@math.carleton.ca


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>From: RANDALLJC%CSOVAX.PORTSMOUTH.AC.UK@HKUVM1.BITNET
>Subject:RE: Q:  How can I prevent the use of incorrect paper size/type?
>Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1992 08:52:00 GMT
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>Thanks for your reply.  You're right about the option - it's called 'Format
>Retrieved Documents for Default Printer' in my version.  Unfortunately,
>although it _sounds_ like the right thing, it only forces the correct
>printer, not the correct paper size - any 'unrecognised' paper sizes (i.e.
>paper sizes not listed in the 'Format...Page...Paper size/type' screen) are
>by default converted to the [ALL OTHERS] paper size, which I cannot alter
>and which is not the correct size for my printers.
>
>Nevertheless, I am very grateful for the suggestion.
>Cheers.
>+==============================+==========================================+
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Dear John

I just replied the problem you rasied in the discussion group but have
probably used the REPLY command which sends messages to the originator only
without posting it to the net.
Could you, if you find the solution helpful, FORWARD my message to the net.
Thanks

Stephen Mak
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From: gottesmn@ducvax.auburn.edu (Robert W. Gottesman)
Subject: FIXED SOFT FONTS?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Auburn University--Auburn, AL
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:32:00 GMT

We've recently lost access to our 25 in 1 font cartridge.  We use a HPLJII and 
have been able to find soft fonts for most of our uses but we have not been able
to find any soft fixed fonts for WordPerfect 5.1.  We especially need a 12cpi 
font to print various Paradox 3.5 reports that are then imported into WP51.
(Paradox outputs reports using spaces instead of tabs, and that is why we need
a fixed font.)  It would be even better is we could locate a shareware or free-
ware fixed font package with fixed fonts AND instructions on how to modify our
PTR to use them.


Thanks in advance.

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Robert Gottesman                             GOTTESMN@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU
Office of Planning and Analysis              GOTTESMN@AUDUCVAX
Auburn University, AL

War Eagle!
205-844-4765
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From: adamsr@netcom.com (Rick Adams)
Subject: Re: Laptop/WP TSRs wanted
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 03:09:00 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

	Many thanks to those who have responded to my original info
requests. While I had hoped to locate a shareware product, Screenextender
sounds as though it will do exactly what I want, and I will order it.

	Apparently cursor.com has some conflict with either DOS 5.0 or with
the NDOS command interpreter (part of the Norton Utilities - actually 4DOS
3.0 with extensions). When I set the cursor with it under DOS it reverts to
the blinking underline cursor upon entry into WP5.1 (on both my laptop and
my SVGA desktop). Hopefully, ScreenExtender will not share that weakness!

	Thanks again,

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From:         Dan Spitzer <SPITZER@CESCC.BRIDGEWATER.EDU>
Subject:      RE Tab codes again
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In message of 30 Jul 92 23:05:35 GMT, wb8foz said:
>I've gotten several pieces of mail about my "edit" request for
>tablines. I want to thank all those who wrote to me.
>
>1) While a macro to edit tablines is nice, it will not fufill the basic
>purpose I had in mind. I want tab editing installed as a integral part
>of the standard distributation so that it is available to ALL uses,
>especially those just figuring out the complicated parts like:
>       c:\ wp
>;-}
>
>2) Yes, many OTHER hidden codes such as margin setting would
>also benefit from an 'edit existing?' path. But, I figured it
>was better to get Orem's attention on one item at a time :_}
>

I'm not sure I've followed all of this discussion, but I hope the
tabs and margins and stuff stay pretty much as is.  It is entirely
too convenient to be able to change tab stops and margins and
have the definitions become effective at the present location in
the document.  Yes, it takes a little learning and a little
care.  I teach an intro class in microcomputers which includes
a _very_ brief intro to WordPerfect.  All students make the error
of trying to set margins at the end of the paper.  Once.
The students catch on pretty quickly.







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Koren Mitchell said:
> I would like to be able to use public domain Adobe Type 1 fonts in WordPerfect
> with my Postscript printer (Ricoh PC6000/PS).

Are there really Adobe Type 1 fonts in public domain?  If so, I'd be
grateful to know where to get hold of them.
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From:         David Carrothers - User Services <CARROTHE@CWU.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Facelift

I use Facelift on a regular basis and it works GREAT!  The best part is
that it doesn't eat up disk space.  It still downloads the fonts to the
printer, which may take some time, other than that...

With facelift there is a good selection of fonts available as well.  I would
recommend the product.
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From: mrdunn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael Robert Dunn)
Subject: formating screenplays
Summary: I want screenplay macros and stlyes but am way to lazy to do
Keywords: screenplays, styles, macros
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 04:45:57 GMT

Hello, I'm not sure uf this is the right place to ask for this, but
does anyone know of a set of macros and styles for formating
screenplays, preferably something I could get online or real cheap
(they need to work in WP 5.01

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From: simona@panix.com (Simona Nass)
Subject: Re: Tab sets and product suggestions...
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:53:48 GMT
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In <01GMY1SUG4U68WW7ZG@mr.rtpnc.epa.gov> ERIC PETERSON 215-597-1650 <PETERSON.ERIC@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV> writes:

>          2.   Calling up WordPerfect Corp. and making a product improvement
>          suggestion - what I understand is each suggestion is logged in, and
>          when they get over 100 of the same suggestion, they work on
>          incorporating it (even if they never thought it was a good idea).
>          So if you have a bee in your bonnet, call 100 times using different
>          names and disguise your voice.

Or just post to this list and other places to encourage others who think
it's a good idea to call also. -S.
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Jackie Hunt wonders why WP Office's task switcher locks up PS/2s, but
works fine on clones.

Well, that's what you get for buying computers that aren't 100% IBM
compatible.  Remember: IBM doesn't make an IBM compatible any more.

I know this doesn't help you any, but I couldn't resist.  8-)

      Everett Ogden    ogdeneb@snycenvm.bitnet
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From:         Russell Perrin <U7584RT@DOEMA.BITNET>
Subject:      FIXED SOFT FONTS?

From: Russell Perrin
While we're on the subject, does anyone know of a source for fixed space 15 or
20 pitch fonts for the HP? I can make one myself in Corel, but I don't know
how to turn it into a HP soft font. I need something I can download to the
printer and tell the printer to use, and then have a program send straight
ASCII text which will appear in that font.

I remember hearing at some point about a program that would convert all text
sent to LPT2 to landscape 8pt courier, and LPT3 to portrait 10pt Letter Gothic
Postscript output and then send that to the Postscript printer on LPT1 (of
course the font and orientation per port could be customized). Does anyone
know the name of this package and where I could find it, as it would answer
our needs also.

We have ordered a few HP IIIsi printers with a $650 (gasp) scalable letter
Gothic cartridge, but, unlike postscript, HP scalable fonts scale the same
percentage horizontally and vertically, whereas I want the scale more
horizontally than vertically. So the cartridge will do the job, but the 20cpi
Letter Gothic will be much shorter, and therefore less readable/faxable than
necessary. If I could design my own tall skinny letter gothic, that would not
be a problem. Any ideas out there?
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 08:59:06 EDT
From: Ron McCarty <RON@psuvm.psu.edu>
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Subject: Wordperfect 5.0 and Sideways

I have just obtained version 3.3 of Sideways and am trying to use it with
WP 5.0. The Sideways manual gives a few hints, mainly that you use the
"Standard Printer" and that you change the printer port to a file. But
the Standard Printer does not allow for a paper width greater than 11".
Does anyone know a way to get around this? Is there another print driver
that supports "unlimitted" width paper? As it stands I can see no value
at all of using SW with WP since all it apparently can do is give you
landscape orientation, which WP is already able to do.

The problem is, I have a text file which is several thousand characters
wide. I created it with QED (the editor from QDos) which allows for
unlimitted width. But I want to use some WordPerfect features such as
shading etc. which my QED does not support.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Ron McCarty
Penn State Erie
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Subject:      Re: print from list file

Put all of the files in a separate sub-directory and mark them all with Alt-F5
in your macro, then respond to the prompts.
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From:         "Danya Hatley" <DANYA@KSUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      WordPerfect to Mac

If I understand your question correctly, you want to transfer files
from Dos or Windows WordPerfect to a Macintosh.

We go back and forth fairly often with excellent results using
Access PC version 1.1 by Insignia Solutions.  It is installed on the
Mac and enables the mac to accept and format PC disks.

We transfer WP documents to both WordPerfect on the Mac and MacWrite.
We also transfer a lot of Mac documents from MacWrite, Word and
Mac WP to PC WordPerfect.  There is very little editing required, if
any after the transfer.

Access PC is inexpesive - maybe around $50, could be higher, but not
more than $80, and well worth it.  Version 2.0 was just released.
There's a toll free Fax response system for info 800-870-3872.
The manual has these phone numbers:  408-522-7600 and 848-7677.

I have no connection with the company - it has just made my job a lot
easier and saved our people a lot of extra typing.

Danya@ksuvm.bitnet
Danya@ksuvm.ksu.edu
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From: simona@panix.com (Simona Nass)
Subject: Re: New feature wanted....
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:45:15 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Keywords: context sensitive search

In <1992Jul25.120414.853@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher) writes:

>2) Especially with tablines, setting can be a trial & error process. 
>   Nope, go back, make a new one with that L moved .2" over, etc. This
>   leads to lots of superseded tablines just piled up there, waiting
>   for you to put one character between them by accident.

>   So, I want a TABSET *edit* function. Just as the FOOTER/HEADER and
>   Graphics Lines commands provide, it would go back to the active
>   TABSET and edit it.

There is a macro to edit codes that comes with WP. You can position it on
the actual code itself, hit the macro, and it will get you into the menu
where you have to change settings (sometimes skipping a level of menu for
you). Gets rid of the problem of multiple superseding codes. However, I
don't know if TABSET is one of the things it works with. Might do what you
ask, though, so it's worth checking out. -S.
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