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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 3:04:19 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: WordPerfect takes longer to print each successive time a document is printed. For example, if the customer prints a one page table two times, the first time it prints it will take two minutes, and the second time, it takes four minutes. Solutions: The user worked around this problem by using an expanded memory manager. A document that was taking almost two minutes to print was only taking 30 seconds to print with expanded memory. WordPerfect stores as much of the document in conventional RAM as it can. The rest of the document is stored in expanded memory or out on the hard disk in virtual files. When functions such as printing the document are invoked, parts of the WordPerfect program (called overlays) must be loaded into RAM. These overlays will take up RAM that was previously occupied by the document, and those parts of the document will be swapped into expanded memory or out to the hard drive. Because things are being shifted to and from the hard drive, the first print job may take more or less time than the second print job. The amount of time it takes to print will vary from computer to computer depending on the capabilities of the hardware (i.e., CPU speed and hard disk speed) and the amount of conventional and expanded memory that is available.

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