Date:  Tue, 29 May 2001 15:23:37 -0400
From:  madodelatptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] WP 5.1 for DOS VESA Driver Opportunity

From: "Dr. Martin R. Hadam" <Hadam.MartinatMH-Hannover.de> 

 With the recent discussion here (editor note: The OS/2 WP List) in mind
about not having the ability for a high resolution graphic preview on
WordPerfect 5.1 (!!; not v6) for DOS, I've sent a message to the SDD-OS2
mailing list asking if there was eventually an option to do e.g. 8514/A
emulation (i.e. emulating an old ATI card) with SDD. With the first
response being rather negative, I've received today an update by Michal
Necasek from SciTech.

 In short, after doing some more research, he found that it should be not
too difficult to write a VESA (!) driver for WP5.1 for DOS. Of course,
there has to be some more demand than just myself... <g>. It's also not
unlikely that it will not be a free tool - since I stated in my request
that those who need it would certainly be willing to pay for such a
long-awaited driver. Personally, I don't think this should be a problem
for those who keep using WP5.1 today.

 In order to find out about potential interested "customers", I'm
volunteering to collect all requests here and forward them to SDD. So, in
case you're interested, please let me know via email to

     Hadam.MartinatMH-Hannover.de 

with 

     "WP5.1 VESA Driver Request"

in the subject line. If you need several licenses, please also include
this number. Your name and email address will only be handed over to
SciTech and used for feedback to you from myself, but is not made
available to anyone else.

 Also, to reach most interested parties in the shortest possible time,
feel free to forward this message to other WP 5.1 users that you know.
Please note that such a driver should be useful to WP 5.1 running in 
plain DOS or any other OS providing full screen DOS boxes (like OS/2).

==================


 Martin R. Hadam
 Kinderklinik - Medizinische Hochschule
 D-30623 Hannover
 Germany
 Email: Hadam.MartinatMH-Hannover.de
                           
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