Re: NBWIN -- frequent crashes

["David B. Kronenfeld" kfeld@xxxxxxxx]

I have had the crash problem particularly with NBWin 5.004--did not have it
with 5.003--and have had it particularly when trying to work with footnotes
(mostly in a file that started out in XYWin. I am one of those who had to
load the long version of the SWSYS.dll on the upgrade--in case that is
relevant. It is mightily frustrating. Since I did not have it in 5.003,
and since they are hard at work, I gather, on 5.005, I have just been
trying to struggle through with it.

At 09:40 AM 12/15/99 -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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>Nick Clifford.
>
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