--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: BEM00015 Date: 10/15/94 From: BRUCE TOBER Time: 12:34am \/To: MALCOLM CAMPBELL (Read 14 times) Subj: Re: I'm inspired! -=> Malcolm Campbell discoursed voluminously Re: I'm inspired! with Bruce Tober on 10-09-94 20:14<=- MC> This is excellent! Diane came back from a long absence, MC> you're back two weeks later! MC> Who's next? (Darryl Gregorash.... where are you?) DK's only been back two weeks eh. Heh now that's timing. I'm hoping to hear from her. Maybe in one of the other msgs in this packet. And of course good to here from you too. cheers tbt ... Can you imagine the silence if everyone said only what he knows. CAPEK ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Alice's Restaurant (1:141/488) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: BEM00016 Date: 10/15/94 From: BRUCE TOBER Time: 12:37am \/To: RICK COLLINS (Read 14 times) Subj: Re: i'm inspired! -=> Rick Collins discoursed voluminously Re: i'm inspired! with Bruce Tober on 10-10-94 19:40<=- RC> You need the following macro: RC> {;} Quoter. Copyright Rick Collins, June 1993~ {;} Released RC> for public use. Please attribute. ~ {DISPLAY OFF} RC> {TEXT}1~EnterQuoteString:~ RC> {Del}y RC> {Switch} RC> {Cancel}1 RC> {Home}{Home}{Home}{Up} RC> {Wrap}n RC> {Home}{Home}{Home}{Up} RC> {ON NOT FOUND}{GO}SK1~~ RC> {Replace}n{VAR 1}{Search}{Backspace}{Search} RC> {LABEL}SK1~ RC> {Home}{Home}{Home}{Up} RC> {VAR 1} RC> {ON NOT FOUND}{GO}SK3~~ RC> {Replace}n{Enter}{Search}{Enter}{VAR 1}{Search} RC> {LABEL}SK3~ RC> {Home}{Home}{Home}{Up} RC> {ON NOT FOUND}{GO}SK3a~~ RC> {Replace}n{VAR 1}{Enter}{Search}{Enter}{Search} RC> {LABEL}SK3a~ RC> {Home}{Home}{Home}{Up} RC> {ON NOT FOUND}{GO}SK4~~ RC> {Replace}n{Search}{Search} RC> {LABEL}SK4~ RC> {Home}{Home}{Home}{Up} RC> {ON NOT FOUND}{GO}SK5~~ RC> {Replace}n{Search}{Search} RC> {LABEL}SK5~ RC> {Home}{Home}{Down} RC> {Home}{Left} RC> {Del to EOL} RC> {Home}{Home}{Home}{Up} RC> {Block} RC> {Home}{Home}{Home}{Down} RC> {Del}y RC> {Switch} RC> {Cancel}1 RC> Assign it as Alt-Q (if you like). Block the appropriate text and call RC> the macro. The macro will prompt for the quote string, _which RC> must be entered exactly as it appears_ (but, you can RC> substitute lower case for upper case). The macro uses RC> Doc2, BTW... Hmmmm. Very good, will give it a go this weekend, thanks. tbt ... Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.-L ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Alice's Restaurant (1:141/488) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: BEM00017 Date: 10/15/94 From: BRUCE TOBER Time: 12:39am \/To: BRUCE WILSON (Read 14 times) Subj: Re: DOS vs. Windows -=> Bruce Wilson discoursed voluminously Re: DOS vs. Windows with Bruce Tober on 10-10-94 22:41<=- BT> response to my letters. Oh well. BW> Routed NetMail should be going out contemporaneously with this reply BW> in the echo. Yes, received. and responded to. BT> Anyway, which WP are you using 5.1 or 6.0? (inserted to keep on BT> topic, doncha see). BW> Although I have a copy of 6.0, purchased on the first day it was out, BW> and the 6.0a and 6.0b interim release disks, I'm still using 5.1 and BW> TrueType for DOS. I'm using 60b, Iused both 60 and 51 alternatively for a while but became too much a drag. finally made the decision i needed the wysiwyg often enough to make it worth it. keep in touch. tbt ... What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?-Ursula K. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Alice's Restaurant (1:141/488) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: BEM00018 Date: 10/15/94 From: BRUCE TOBER Time: 12:52am \/To: DON NICKELL (Read 14 times) Subj: DOS vs. Windows -=> Don Nickell discoursed voluminously DOS vs. Windows with Bruce Tober on 10-10-94 00:00<=- DN> Hi, Bruce, when you mentioned "the other side of the pond" it DN> reminded me of the "BC Comic strip" where No Name often sends stone DN> tablets floating across the ocean to talk to people in far off DN> lands. Do we fall into that category? I'm in New Mexico, you're in Now you do. I've lived here in England for the past three years. DN> _______. (Please fill in the blank.) Nice to hear from you again, DN> I've missed you. :=) Likewise. I'm in Birmingham (abbreviated Brum by the cognoscenti). It's the coutry's second largest city, in the industrial heartland but now becoming a centre of the arts and interantional trade and conventions. It's about a 90 minute train trip north of London, where I was Friday to do some interviews for a magazine article I've been commissioned to write (using WP60b, of course, pheww knew I've get on topic sooner or later). I usually go in and stay at least one over night but decided to get back home tonight, too much work to do this weekend. While there made my usual rounds of the Charing Cross bookshops, man what a joy they are. BT>Thanks for that review, they've only just released 5.1+ here and I BT>haven't got it and now doubt I will. DN> I shouldn't bad mouth 5.1+, after all they did change the 1-Go to DN> DOS code so that now there is only a small kernel of WP left in RAM DN> when you Shell to DOS. Now there is only about 16K left in RAM. DN> That's great for shelling out to run another application that DN> requires lots of RAM ... like my genealogy program PAF that requires DN> 610K to run. 'Tain't Multi-tasking, you might call it Dual-tasking. DN> :=) You really should try WP Office (now renamed something else) the shell of which is included with WP. It's marvelous and gives you true task switching capabilities, clipboard function, menuing, and lots of other goodies. BT>OTOH I agree about 60 being much slower, but I've been using it for BT>about a year now and am really enjoying it, especially the WYSIWYG BT>features. I work in text mode most of the time except when I need to BT>see results. DN> Gee, when you used the term "about 60" my sleepy mind thought you DN> were 5 years younger than me. Then I remembered you were just a DN> youngster ... 50. Hummm.... almost sounds like WP versions. :=) Close - 48 this past june. DN> BTW, I re-loaded 5.1 the other day, and my memory hasn't gone south DN> as I feared...it does print Tables/Line Draw in Draft mode, in 1/2 DN> the time of 5.1+. With 5.1+ you can get WYSIWYG with the Screen DN> Extender package that comes with the `+'; with that added benefit DN> you can slog along at 6.0 speeds and feel at home. :=) Hmmm. Ok, but for now, think I'd best stick with 6.0. Too much invested in it. DN> We still have toll free numbers. About 6-8 months ago they Lucky sods. &-} DN> contracted with a firm in Michigan to pick up the overflow of Help DN> calls. Does that show the amount of help that is needed, or the Wish they'd do that here. DN> number of people that refuse to RTFM? One user call the DELL Probably the former. With the latter coming in a close second. DN> computer help line and stated she felt she shouldn't have to RTFM DN> after paying $2,000 for the laptop! Sigh.... Tech Support: Right, please make a copy of the the file and send it to me. Caller: Sticks disk in Xerox machine and sends the resultant photocopy to the tech support department. Some things never change. DN> I'd sign off with Ciciaoe, but I don't know how to spell it. :=) I do.... ...cheers tbt &-} ... All truths begin as blasphemies. -GEORGE B. SHAW ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Alice's Restaurant (1:141/488) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: BEM00019 Date: 10/15/94 From: BRUCE TOBER Time: 12:53am \/To: DON NICKELL (Read 14 times) Subj: DOS vs. Windows -=> Don Nickell discoursed voluminously DOS vs. Windows with Bruce Tober on 10-10-94 00:00<=- DN> the Tables printing problem with 5.1+ since March! of 1994. But DN> nothing has been done about it since then. DN> Half Corrected? Not unless you do something constructive. Or does DN> that mean that WP has become a half-way measure? Or a half-vast DN> company? From what I'm seeing over here, the latter. Unfortunately. tbt ... Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Alice's Restaurant (1:141/488) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: BEM00020 Date: 10/15/94 From: BRUCE TOBER Time: 01:00am \/To: KEN FACKLER (Read 14 times) Subj: Re: I'm inspired! -=> Ken Fackler discoursed voluminously Re: I'm inspired! with Bruce Tober on 10-11-94 23:23<=- BT> about. Why not write a macro for us? KF> It doesn't? I use it all the time. Block the para and then hit it. I KF> don't use it on quoted text, however. That would take a macro, as you KF> suggest. Not to worry, Rick Collins posted one, which I'll try this weekend. BT> How are you? KF> Basically solvent, more or less healthy, very busy. Good to see you KF> back!! ta. Sounds as if we're in the same situation then. good to hear it. BT> in a new job and doing much writing. KF> Wonderful!! Glad that things continue to work out for you. Ups and downs as ever, but I'm finally coming to realise that the downs do resolve themselves to ups. BT> Good to see at least some of the old gang is still here. KF> Many have gone on to using MSWord, other have gone to the "new" echo, KF> WPERFECT. Some lurk and only rarely post, e.g., Alan Kaplan is still KF> "out there." He and his bride are expecting a bambino around February. Congrats to him for me. As for the other WP echo I think I'm gonna hafta pass. BT> Inet address, please post it to me. KF> I don't have access to it but I can post messages via the Fido and/or KF> GEnie gateways. What's yours? That's a real problem. The BBS I'd been using for my fido net address seems not to like my new modem and doesnt read my keystokes in BW, but give a try at this other one I sometimes use - IBASE BBS 2:254/241 cheers tbt ... EVERYTHING GOES ON SALE ... RIGHT AFTER YOU BUY IT ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Alice's Restaurant (1:141/488) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: BEM00021 Date: 10/15/94 From: BRUCE TOBER Time: 01:22am \/To: KARIN COPPERNOLL (Read 14 times) Subj: Re: Postal bar codes -=> Karin Coppernoll discoursed voluminously Re: Postal bar codes with Lutz Winkler on 10-03-94 17:20<=- KC> I asked my postal clerk and they said they preferred it to be below Er, your "postal clerk" is a "they"? or is that the current PolCor usage? Or is it a method of using an easy WP macro so that rather than have to type in he, she, it, you just hit alt-g (g for gender) and up pops "they"? tbt - who loves WP but hate PC ... Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.-H. G. WELLS ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Alice's Restaurant (1:141/488) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: BEM00022 Date: 10/15/94 From: BRUCE TOBER Time: 01:26am \/To: DAVID RAY (Read 14 times) Subj: Updating Video Driver -=> Auke Reitsma discoursed voluminously Updating Video Driver with David Ray on 10-06-94 19:03<=- DR> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. Your help will be DR> appreciated. AR> AR> It is more or less hidden under: Shift-F1, 2, 1, 1 ... But DO make sure you do the graphics setup only when you're in graphics mode and the text setup only when you're in text mode. tbt ... FELLOW WITH CLOSED MIND OFTEN HAS OPEN MOUTH ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Alice's Restaurant (1:141/488) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: BEM00023 Date: 10/15/94 From: BRUCE TOBER Time: 01:37am \/To: KURT SLETTERDAHL (Read 14 times) Subj: Re: WP DOS -=> Kurt Sletterdahl discoursed voluminously Re: WP DOS with Bruce Wilson on 10-08-94 17:22<=- KS> The Software Publishers Association state that sales of KS> Windows software is +42.9%, and that sales of DOS software KS> is -32.3%. KS> KS> It is logical for software publishers to concentrate their KS> limited resources on the rapidly growing market segment, KS> rather than on the rapidly shrinking market segment. Which, of course, raises the question of the chicken or the egg. Perhaps the increase in windoze sales reflects the proliferation of windoze software and the decline in development and support of dos software rather than the reverse. Windoze is the biggest fraud perpetrated on the computing public. It turns a 486 computer into the equivalent of an 8086 (in terms of speed), it eats up absurd amounts of RAM and HD space uneseccarily (ie if wp6dos can do what it does in dos then what the hell is windoze for). I can set up a computer system (computer, printer and software) for dos that will equal or beat any windoze system for a third or less the cost of the windoze system and will be at least as easy to learn and use and at least as productive as any windoze system i've yet to see. And just to keep this on topic, the way I do that system is with WP and WP Office or WP Works. tbt ... IF YOU'VE GOT PART OF IT, FLAUNT THAT PART ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Alice's Restaurant (1:141/488) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 163 WORD PERFECT Ref: BEM00024 Date: 10/13/94 From: GEORGE POPE Time: 07:45pm \/To: RENE DELAUP (Read 14 times) Subj: .PRS for BJ200 RD> -> I received, as a gift, a previously-used computer with software alr RD> -> on the hard drive, including WP51 (My favourite!), my problem is th RD> Just "on the hard drive"? Did your seller keep the original diskettes RD> manual? Then YOU have a pirate copy. Federal felony. It wasn't a "seller" the computer was a gift. So for the benefit of any federal watchdogs... There was no monetary gain involved on either side, so there's no case... I'm not overly worried about it, I'm considering a new computer anyway, with software and everything, and new stuff would have all the drivers I need, I'm sure. Thanks for your 'concern'... :) iHMS <+]:-) Pope out. ... 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