CompuServe Thread

Unfortunately, I hear WP will not currently run on the 3000. A bug fix is on the way. This is only version 4.1, so there are no graphics and page preview is not needed. I believe 5.0 has a 'save under 4.x' requester in Text In/Out which should allow you to transfer stuff back and forth. I use 5.0 at the office, and although the 4.1 version for the amiga lacks the graphics (!!) capability, it is a very good version of 4.1 (nice file requestors, etc) compared to the PC 4.1. Douglas Bullard

Scott: The current version of WP for the Amiga is 4.1. However, the latest version permits you to export/import MS-DOS WP4.2 files if you have a translator program like DOS2DOS, or a Bridge Board. I use it all the time going from Amiga to MS-Dos WP5.1 and it translate everything, including foreign characters very well. Unfortunately, the Amiga version lacks many of the enhancements offered by WP5 and WP5.1, such as view, graphics and variable font sizes. But all I do is write my documents in Amiga, transfer them to WP5.1 and format them in the MS-Dos version. Bill Perez San Juan, PR

Scott, here's part of a message I saw on BIX some time ago. I don't have 2.0, so I can't vouch for its accuracy, but I have seen this advice repeated elsewhere. "…I've heard that you CAN get WP to run without crashing IF you set all of your fonts to 8-point, non-proportional fonts. Since you won't want to do this all thetime, I'd suggest a script file to copy the new fonts.prefs to your env directory, and another to restore the larger fonts when you're finished with WP. I'd be interested in hearing whether you or anyone else gets this to work…." If you get a chance to try this out, let us know how it works!