23/02/95
Registration forms are supplied with all Acorn's computers, peripherals and
the majority of Acorn's software packages for the Acorn Archimedes or BBC
A3000 series computers are supplied with registration forms. Please remember
to fill in and return the registration forms. Doing this, you register your
computer for warranty purposes, so in the unlikely event that your computer
fails a speedy repair can be undertaken. The registration forms supplied
with software packages are used to inform our customers of any updates or
new releases of that piece of software.

1st Word Plus Release 2 is supplied with a !Run file that will take whatever
free memory is available in the Next slot of the Task Manager. When you
switch your Acorn Archimedes or BBC A3000 on the Task Manager sets the Next
slot to 640K which on a 1Mbyte system is almost all the available memory. It
is however possible to change the !Run file of 1st Word Plus to take only a
set maximum amount of memory. This can be achieved by first loading the !Run
file in !Edit and then scrolling to the bottom of the file where you will
find the command:

WimpSlot -min 416k

The command can be altered to read:

WimpSlot -min 416k -max xxxk

The parameter xxxk can be any value over the minimum requirement for 1st
Word Plus to start ie. 416k, therefore the command could look as follows:

WimpSlot -min 416k -max 564k

The file can then be resaved back into the 1st Word Plus directory. Please
ensure that you have made backup copies of the software before attempting
this.

A number of people have problems attempting to print the text they create in
!Edit. To print text you must first ensure the correct printer driver is
loaded. Then bring up the save text dialogue box within !Edit then, instead
of dragging the file to a Filer window, drag the file over the Printer
driver icon on the icon bar. The printer driver will understand that it is
pure text and will print it as such. If you have a text file on disc which
you wish to print, then simply drag it from the filer window over the
printer driver icon.

Archimedes and BBC A3000 software which works outside the desktop will quite
often reconfigure the computer unplugging various modules and resetting
various CMOS RAM settings. If it does not set the computer back to its
original state then error messages such as 'SWI &xxxxxxx' not known will
occur. The are two types of reset which will return the computer back to a
state where it is usable. The first is an 'R' Power On, which simply
involves holding down the R key while switching on the computer. This will
reset the machine except for the number of floppy drives, the number of hard
drives, the country setting, Econet station number and the bytes of CMOS
relating to the expansion cards. The other reset is a 'Delete' power on.
This resets the whole machine except for the Econet station number.