Hello Greg!
 > My mother uses 5.1 and 6.0 for DOS, and has had the most trouble
 > after using
 > the spell-checkers. One time a 6-page paper lost the last 5 pages,
 > the first
 > was scrambled, and the machine froze. We had to re-boot, undelete the
 > timed
 > backup copy, and start again. I remember reading some postings and
 > articles
 > that said the spell-checkers _are_ the culprit.
Hm. I have been living with WP.6 Dos,WP6.0a Dos and WP6.0b Dos. Changing from 
WP6.0a to WP6.0b; WordPerfect corporation changed the checker files, in that 
way that the files from 6.0 &nd 6.0a no longer were valid in 6.0b. As 
registered user  I obtained brand new  spell-checkerfiles for my 6.0b (wich 
are also valid in Wp6.1 Wind and Wp6.1 Dos & 6.2 Dos). Anyway, I do have 
spellckers installed here for Dutch, English, Spanish, Italian and 
German-German. And everything rins for the best.
To sum up: spell-checkers for WP5.x and WP6.x are defenitly different. And 
spell-checkers for WP6.0-WP6.0a Dos are also different from 
WP.60b-WP6.1-WP6.2 Dos.  So, I do suggest your mothers computer-WP-settings 
needs some tweacking.
A pity that your continent is rather far away from here, otherwise I am sure 
I could do it myself for you :-)
Groeten uit Belgi‰
  Kris
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