"Michael Wyland" <michael@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Pete Stavrakoglou" <ntotrr@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:u7DDuEAzIHA.2360@xxxxxx Quote:
>> "Michael Wyland" <michael@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:C8A8A5FB-9039-494A-859A-B92DE2C8E35E@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> Pete:
>>>
>>> I've posted to the Corel WP X4 newsgroup (I'm a former C_TECH
>>> volunteer). The issue isn't really a WP one, though. The problem is
>>> that Vista won't let me create certain directories that were standard
>>> under XP, such as C:\documents and settings\owner\my documents.
>>>
>>> Michael Wyland
>>
>> The reason I suggested the Corel newsgroups is that perhaps someone there
>> may have a solution/workaround. I suspect that the mention of WP in the
>> message might cause most people to just continue on to the next thread.
>> Not that I'm a heavy WP user (I use it at home, I use MS Office at work
>> where I have no choice), I have little word processing to do at home
>> where I use WP but how long ago were you a C_TECH volunteer? I don't
>> recall "running in to you" in the newsgroups but maybe we did. I do
>> remember Deborah Earle. Extremely knowledgable and nice lady.
>> >
> I was the original WP BBS volunteer support person in the early 1990s. I
> became part of a group of WP volunteer support people on CompuServe who
> later migrated with WP to Novell and then to Corel in the mid- to late
> 1990s.
>
> WP, and later Novell, brought us all into Utah once a year, and Corel had
> us come to Ottawa for face-to-face time, product briefings from
> developers, etc. Novell even did a Bahamas cruise for all us "Netwire"
> folks back in 1995. I still have the T-shirt!
>
> I stopped doing volunteer support as the questions transitioned from
> issues of features, functionality, and program error messages to issues of
> networkng (especially Novell networking) issues and operating
> system-related issues (like this thread). That's some history you have with the product and companies. BTW, any
t-shirt that I would have from 1995 wouldn't fit me now.