Re: NBWIN -- frequent crashes

[Emery Snyder emery_snyder@xxxxxxxx]

I've had the same problem.

At 09:40 AM 15.12.1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Has anyone else been having bad crash problems with NBWIN? I've had the
>program for a couple of weeks now, and discover that it goes down with
>monotonous regularity, sometimes by itself, sometimes taking the entire
>system with it. This morning it's gone down at least ten times in the
>past hour, thus prompting this message. Earlier I said that NBWIN
>struck me as a work in progress, but I would have hoped a bit more
>progress would have been made before it was put out on the market.
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>The problem comes in working with chapter-length files of a certain
>complexity (full of footnotes and such), particularly when I'm trying to
>edit footnotes. But isn't that sort of scholarly work what NB is
>supposed to be good at? Nor did an e-mail to their tech support some
>time ago bring any response.
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>Compared to NBWIN, MS WORD is a model of stability. There are other
>minor problems; there is no way, for instance, to get the envelope
>printing program to work as advertised. I've tried all sorts of
>permutations and they all fail, sending me back either to Xy4DOS or MS
>WORD. Any help cheerfully accepted, for at this point I'm sorely
>tempted to see if I can get my money back.
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>Nick Clifford.
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