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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1615)7/7/1999 5:50:00 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 2617
 
I have been having the odd problem with Applixware Word clone. I tried to import a word 6.0 file and Applix hung. It basically trashed me out of X. When I rebooted the hard drive would not come up. After a while that fixed itself! (Wonder if the master/slave drives are on the right position on the IDE cable? Is there a heirarchy?) Kind of daunting. On a second try I did a few things differently in going through the import and it informed me that it could not import fast-saved files. I resaved the file with fast-save taken out of Word 6.0 options but Applix still choked. The file was replete with colour illustrations that were all over the page and about 5 megs. As a *.pdf file it was handled "well" by XPDF and even Ghostview although I did not try GIMP.

Another problem I had with 4.4.1 was that I could not get page numbering to work at all. Let alone split latin-arabic page numbering for different sections. I had trouble with that in Word 6.0 too.

Where would you start? Should I rehabitate to another planet and stick to analog computers? Change my bio-form and reincarnate as a lower species, say Irish? Try another OS? Give up on complex software and go back to ROFF?

WAWOT.

sheesh!

mailto:echarter@grubstake.on.ca

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