#WordPerfect 5.0???
26-Oct-91 08:18:41
Sb: #38241-#WordPerfect 5.0???
Fm: BILL LEACH 71330,2621
To: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771
Ben;
Actually, I'm not too thrilled with WP's Amiga interface. There are a
couple of things about their file requester that I really like but overall
I prefer Khalid's.
As to WP 5.x at AmiExpo, again lying is a pretty strong statement. It
doesn't make any sense that they would lie about it. It does make sense
that either they were overly optimistic or that some serious problem was
discovered after the announcement.
I certainly agree that WP's problems and deficiencies are not your fault.
I will even go so far as to say that I suspect that in the earily days of
WP you probably tried to provide debug help (likely not too gently, but
probably with sincerity).
I know about some of the praise your organization receives, after all I see
a bit here. I also do not hesitate to recommend your products… for a
multitude of reasons. While I don't not think that I should have as many
problems as I do, and feel that some of the program response is
inappropriate (like locking up), I also believe that: 1). I don't have
much right to bitch since I know that if I submit a bug report action to
solve the problem WILL take place. 2). I don't see anyone else having the
problems and really believe that it has more to do with my expectations of
operational behavior than with any sort of design flaws in the program.
3). I also rarely reboot my machines, which is probably not a common mode
of amiga operation for your users and memory fragmentation is not something
that you can fix.
-bill/ARS KB7LX