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Word Perfect bug



'Captured this note from Compuserve and thought it worth a be aware post
per Word Perfect:

#: 112587 S2/Word Processing [A]
  31-May-91 20:07:32
Sb: #112573-Want new word processor
Fm: MICHAEL TERRY 76655,164
To: Dan Bohn 73730,2067

Dan - Do you have a phone number for them. [Discussion was about Textra
word processor.] I've never heard of the package. I've been using Word
Perfect 5.1 since November of last year. After writing a 330 page
technical reference manual for a programmer's library with it, I found
that there's an unbelievable bug/design flaw in the index generation
that forced me to ship the manuals with some page numbers off by plus or
minus a page. Word Perfect Problem Resolution examined my files and
determined that it was such a serious problem in the index generation
that a fix wouldn't even be attempted until a major version upgrade.

[Discussion then goes on talking about his word processor needs.]