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Edward A pleasure. David
Hank We WinWord users have to stick together. David
Edward The file you want is DTSWP2.ZIP for the WPWin 6.0a macros. Unfortunately, they're not nearly as good as the newer 6.1 versions, but they are better than nothing, and arguably better than the alterantive… Hope this helps and I hope you like them. David P.S. I'd seriously recommend taking…
Howard The problem is WinWord NT, not Win95. Win95 should behave exactly the same as Win3.x, but WinWord NT is known to behave differently than 16-bit WinWord. If you have any knowledge of WinWord macros, you can modify the macros yourself to make them work properly. Of course, if I…
John With apologies to Dean, there *is* a way to suppress the logo on a module by module basis, and you can probably get it to work with OS/2. Simply, set any DTS module you are likely to open manually to run minimized. This suppresses the logo, and gets the…
Doug Mike Tollin is the expert on the DTS/WinFax switches. Unfortunately, I don't know any more than he told me. Did you read his note to me the other day? He suggested (at the users own risk) a number of interesting changes, which enhance the capabilities of the WinFax interface…
Dean Understood. David
Mike Apologies for not getting back. I have a ton of stuff in my in-box going back to September. I fully intended to answer everything, I'm just having scheduling problems and giving priority to getting serial numbers to folk registering my WPWin macros, and trying to complete (please, let it…
Dean Please tell Konstantin that as he's now using Microsoft C++ (to the best of my recollection, and I hope that's not confidential), he can very easily port a Mac version. Might be worth considering. David
Mike Wow! I knew all those numbers did something, I just didn't know what would have what effect. Well done. Question: I notice you've also thrown in some options beyond what DTS supplies. Do you have the Delrina specs? Just curious to know how you figured it all out. David…
Doug Don't worry, you're not alone: I have also noticed all the anomalies you are having with the WinFax integration. In fact, my, um, friend(), who was using two of the 4.1b betas, noticed the ) problem and reported it at the time, but a fix was presumably overlooked. On…
Thilo Who would have though a few weeks ago that we'd be exchanging e-mail like this! Thank you very much for the incredibly generous comments. They really are appreciated. As to giving myself a break, these macros are my little corner of the world when it comes to programming, and…
David As always, thank you very much for your very generous comments. Little by little I've tried to make these macros better and better, and I think they're one or two interim releases away from being just about as good as I can get them (just in time from the…
Chuck I'm glad you got the macros, and I hope you're finding them useful. Do get back to me when you've played around with them a little. I think you'll find that the documents they produce are amazingly customizable, even if there isn't direct access to the macro code. I…
Dean Thank you for the compliment; much appreciated (as I'm married to a judge/attorney, I know better than to ask if you've actually seen the macros). David P.S. Good job on the patch. It fixed all the problems I had encountered, most notably (for me) the WinFax integration.
Chuck I'm sorry about the delay in getting back to you; I was putting the finishing touches to the macros. As the files haven't appreared in the Okna library yet, I've e-mailed you DTSWP3.ZIP and DTSWPF.ZIP, the former containing three letter-type macros and supporting files, the latter containing four fax…
Doug Thanks very much for the generous comments. I'd like to add that your suggestions were a very significant factor in the creation of this new version, resulting in an entirely new interface and a number of other changes, such as Address Book popping up prior to the main dialog…
Patrick My commiserations to your wife; sounds as though she has a lot in common with mine, with what she has to contend with. Having considered Help at length recently, I have been struck by the challenges associated with it. One solution I like is extensive use of illustrations and…
John My DeskTop Set group is named OKNA.GRP. The way to get it into PC Tools is to go into your PC Tools Program Groups folder, select File/Import, and then select OKNA.GRP, which should be with most if not all of your other .GRPs in your \WINDOWS directory. Another way…
John In SYSTEM.INI, find the line that reads: Shell=progman.exe Change it to: Shell=c:\cps\wndt.exe This assumes that the CPS directory is named CPS and that it is installed on your C: drive. After doinf this save, exit, reload, and Bob's your uncle (or is he mine..?). Hope this helps. David
Herb I did make the macro capable of being run alone, in an open document, although I had hoped no one would try it as the standalone capabilities are not as complete as I'd like them to be (well, they're not as good as the WordPerfect version due to limitations…
Joe DTS is not currently networked, although it will be Q1 '95. Someone else will give you more details, but for the moment, you can obviously both access the same data and modify it, just so long as you are not both accessing and modifying it at the same time.…
Tony Sorry about that problem with the second Normal, which should have been DTSNormal: I've e-mailed you a replacement. It happen because I did a search for "normal", assumed there was one, and just changed it. I've made sure both are changed in the 'new' version. The *really* new version…
Kevin I certainly hope the macro's as good as the help file. Please let me know what you think, positive and negative, as I'm currently working on an upgrade. (It/they will be released once I've got my hands on WinWord 6.0c, DTS 4.1b and WPWin 6.1.) David
Patrick Thanks for the kind words. I happened to get elbow deep in some of your work recently, and was very impressed. That experience was what prompted me to try to do as thorough a job as I did on the macro help file(s). Help is enormously underappreciated, and vitally…
Kevin You're quite right, the August 20 '93 version of BOOK.EXE will work perfectly. I used the September 1 '93 date rather than the August 20 date as a minimum requirement as the August version had been described to me as a very late beta; I hadn't realized that it…
Tony Let me see if I've got this straight: does that mean you like it? Thank you very much; I appreciate it. The macro was quite easy to do as it is based on a WordPerfect version that has evolved over a number of months. I went to such lengths…
Hank Anything good in 6.0c, or is it a bug fix? (To be honest, I've never encountered any bugs in 6.0a, but then I don't use it as often as I use WPWin.) 20 diskettes for MS Office 4.2c? Hah, that's nothing! PerfectOffice Professional 3.0 apparently requires up to 130mb…
Patrick > I try very hard to maintain 20-20 perspective.
Scott I agree; it will probably be quicker to wait for the 4.1b patch than have Okna send you the 4.0c/4.1a disks. I'm glad you liked the help file, though. It took me longer to put that together than to write the WinWord macro! What will be the difference between…
Richard Between ourselves, one suggestion of mine is included in 6.1, and another will be included in 7.0 ('95?), so I'm certainly trying to mold it to my image. I'm currently working on trying to get them to implement the equivalent of WinWord's Keep With Next, which I think is…
Tony My WinWord/DTS template/macro is in the Okna library. It's named DTSW4W.ZIP, and is experiencing a quite brisk download rate. What does it do? Basically, if you start a new document based on the template, a macro runs which pops up Address Book (whether or not it was running before),…
Joe The WinWord 6.0a patch is available in the WinWord forum. Careful which version you dowbload, as there are versions for multiple different national versions. What does it fix? To be honest, I can't remember, suffice it to say that I have no problems with 6.0a, and it's always neat…
Patrick > So, what are you doing these days? David
Dear Richard As you know, I've had good luck with WPWin, particularly after some kind soul let me have a copy of the 6.0a patch. I had to use WinWord recently, which prompted me to port my macro to it, but I far prefer WPWin and use it in preference…
Neill I see someone else has mentioned that DTS and WinWord coexist quite happily. In fact, I wrote the spiffy macro referred to in that other message, and DTS and WinWord seem to work together beautifully (particularly if you're using my macro). I think you're going to have to look…
Dear Tracy Thanks for the clarification on Patrick. Sometimes I'm not entirely sure who I'm writing to, for example writing to Martine on Patrick's account and getting a reply from you. Very confusining for we simple folk. David
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Pat Thanks for the reply. My message was a little tongue in cheek as you keep referencing DTP, which is typically an acronym for DeskTop Publishing, rather than DTS, which is the acronym for DeskTop Set. That said, and I mean this as a comment rather than an attack of…
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Louis I suspect Konstantin foresaw the coming of object-oriented computing, really wanted DeskTop Set to be on the desktop, and so used WINDOWS\DESKTOP. But you're right. It's a very simple thing to change (I moved both to come off the root \OKNA), but I suspect a number of users down…
Martine Success = SpeakToMother If Author = Success Then Maybe Goto Yay Else MaybeNot Goto Lame (That's the WordBasic version. Here's the WPWin, er, PerfectScript version:) Assign(Success; SpeakToMother) If(Author=Success) Maybe Go Yay Else MaybeNot Go Lame EndIf Success *does* equal True, so we're on our way to the Yay routine.…
Pat I was sorry to hear of your experiences with DTP (Desktop publishing). Interesting as they were and sympathetic as I am, do you have any observations on DTS (DeskTop Set)? DTS is of course a fine application; I have, for example, never heard of it corrupting data, although of…
Ari I don't work for Okna; I'm just a very satisfied user, who finds DTS remarkably easy to use. If memory serves, DTS was actually the first Windows application I ever used, which implies to me at least that it couldn't have been that hard to figure out. On the…
John A quick update on Calculator. Calculator reuires the following elements to run: DTSCUSTOM.DLL, OKNA.DLL and OKNAINTL.DLL must be in the same directory as TAPECALC.EXE, and WIN.INI must contain a section and line (such as [DeskTop Set] plus Data=C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP) pointing to where CALC.OPT is stored and where LAST.TAP is or…
Eric If you happen to want it before it shows up in the library, although I suspect it will be there by Wednesday, I'd be happy to e-mail it. As to Access/DTS, I'd be very intersted in hearing what happens when you get the Btrieve standalone product, and what it…
Tracy > 🙂 x 2 David
Hank In a sense, this has to be considered a beta release, and I'd like to keep it a closed shop for a few weeks just to see if there are any glaring errors (OK, bugs). If nothing seems wrong, or if something is wrong and I can fix it,…
John A very gracious reply. Also, I hadn't realized the Calculator was the first thing Konstantin did (personally, I don't use it; I like the one in Norton DeskTop, and keep about 5mb of Norton files on my HD just to support it, as I actually use PC Tools). There…
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