Re: Word Perfect for the Apple II and IIGS now FREEWARE!

[gareth@vcn.bc.ca (Gareth Jones)]

Matthew Pearce (mpearce@crl.com) wrote:
: Charles T. Turley (cturley@wco.com) wrote:
: 
: : I have both of the latest versions of Word Perfect for the Apple II and 
: : IIGS.
: 
: I'm curious: What was the last version # for the Apple ][?  I have only 
: seen version 1.1.
: 
: M.P.
: 
: 
: 
That's the latest version I've seen, too.

Now, we've got the problem (once again) of having software to distribute
but no manuals to get people started. I'll write a little tutorial for it
one of these days for my club newsletter, but I'd like to encourage anyone
who is experienced with WP 1.1 or WPGS 2.1 to write something more
complete, on the order of the Apple Writer instructions written by Gareth
Tucker.

Incidentally, I've been working on the problem of no documentation for
Medley. First I got permission directly from Millikan (the copyright
holders) to distribute the docs as files. Then I got to work scanning and
typing - and Peter Stark of the British IIgs Users' Club got me over the
top by supplying much of the documentation in a large single file. So I
now have:

1. Tutorial - a Medley document containing both text and screen shots,
taking up about a MB when unpacked, and 127K when packed.
2. Medley.Man - the Medley documentation (with the exception of the
supplement to version 2.0, which I don't have)
3. !Help! files - I don't know about anyone else, but Medley's on-line
help doesn't work for me. (A damaged archive?) I got around this by
converting the text of the on-line help into a series of attractive
Teach-format files, for use with Ewen Wannop's excellent !Help! NDA.

I will upload these to ground as soon as I figure out how.

-Gareth Jones