From: btd@iastate.edu (Benjamin T Dehner)
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 and Packet drivers
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 08:05:47 GMT

In <1992Apr7.221123.16485@mathcs.sjsu.edu> rick@mathcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:

>MS promised almost total compatibility between 3.0 and 3.1.  I would hold

	Microsoft says lots of things.  They lie,  I wouldn't trust Microtrash
if they said the sky was blue.  I just got 3.1, and installed it, and I find 
that many non-Windows apps don't run as well -- if at all -- as they did 
under 3.0.  (Example:  AutoCad 10)

>them to this promise, call their Windows tech support (I sure hope this is
>an 800 line), and tell them to provide a fix.  They advertised 

	FYI, it is NOT an 800 line.  It is a standard toll line, of course
open only during business (=expensive phone call) hours.  Looks like
they aren't really interested in supporting their trash either.

>compatibility - hold them to the fire.

	I damn well intend to.  I used to like Macrograft.  I saw a demo of
Word for Windows 2.0, and was really impressed with the equation editor,
and so I got it.  Know what?  The equation editor doesn't work with my
printer.  I've got an HP Deskjet, but since I don't have the PRINTER
fonts, the equation editor won't let me use it's neat fancy SCREEN fonts
and symbols and stuff.  (Not even to insert the items as pictures, unless
I do lots of playing around.)
	So then I got Windoze 3.1 with TrueType.  Thought that this would
solve my problems.  Know what?  1) The math fonts that came with TrueHype 
(and the extra ones I bought) aren't near as good as the ones with the equation 
editor, 2) I have to insert all special characters manually -- makes a pain
for any moderately complicated equation, and the equation editor itself is
still virtually useless, and  3) I can't use the FalseType fonts anyway; anytime
I try and paste them in, something gets munged up between the clipboard and 
the ap.
	Sorry, but I'm kind of irked at Microflop right now.  Maybe tomorrow,
after I've talked to some of their service people (which I pay for) I'll
get this straightened out.  But after spending two hours to install something
that doesn't work, I think I have a right.  (Two hours?  Yes.  It crashed
the first time -- hardware problem I think -- but AFTER filling up the hard
disk with so much crap I had to diddle around moving and deleting files
to make enough room so it would re-install, when there was plenty of room
anyway becasue most of the installation was re-copying files.)
	Anyone have a utility to de-install 3.1 and go back to 3.0?  I suppose
if all else fails 'del *.*' will work ...

Ben

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Benjamin T. Dehner          Department of Physics and Astronomy 
btd@iastate.edu             Iowa State University 
                            Ames, IA 50011

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