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- ↑ also: "Envelope Printing Problems In Lotus Ami Pro". January 10, 2018. "Cause: Conflict between Program/Operating System/Driver Settings" (followed by) changes to be made "in the Print Envelope Options dialog box."
- ↑ Laurie Flynn (February 5, 1990). "WPMA Acts to Improve Compatibility: Windows, OS/2 Developers Target Five Areas Needing Clarification". InfoWorld. "For moving text through the Clipboard, developers are working on a consistent way to indicate paragraph breaks, according to Joe Guthridge, group manager of research and development at Samna Corp. Various ways of transferring Postscript images using the Clipboard are still under discussion... The existence of multiple versions of RTF has also caused confusion for developers and limited how well their programs work together. However, Microsoft has already committed to promoting only one version from now on, according to Guthridge."
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