Screen Rewrite Accesses Hard Drive Every Keys

DocumentID: 606546
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:31:44 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: When a WP 5.0 document is brought into WP 5.1, every arrow key pressed causes WP to read the hard drive. This also slows down the screen rewrite (4 seconds in some cases). This only happens when Reveal Codes is on. If Reveal Codes is off, the hard drive and rewrite work fine. It only happens in a WP 5.0 document containing formatting codes. Solutions: This problem was partially fixed in the 06/29/90 interim release (see 06/29/92 SCNs). Update the customer's Program 1 and 2 disks. This will help the problem of the disk being accessed with every keystroke. This fix will not completely stop the accessing of the hard drive, but will make it so it is less frequent. Another suggestion is to increase the number of buffers in the CONFIG.SYS file since the problem is caused by overlays swapping in and out of memory.

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