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From: jeffj@pro-avalon.cts.com (Jeff Jungblut)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: AppleWorks 3.0 limitation on 5.25" disks
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Date: 3 Jul 89 07:08:00 GMT
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Network Comment: to #9352 by pnet01!crash!ucbvax.berkeley.edu!unmvax!polyslo!ctuel

>What REALLY pisses me off is that AppleWorks 3.0 doesn't give the full
>spelling dictionary to 5.25" disk users.  According to A2-Central, the
>dictionary on 3.5" disks is a whopping 148 blocks BIGGER.  
>
>What I'd like to be able to do is have the program in memory on my 
>640K //c and the 402 block dictionary split across two floppies, both
>of which are online.  Looks like the developers forgot about us users
>with two 5.25" floppies, and I'm PISSED.

Nearly all users who have only 5.25" drives get upset enough over having to
switch to a dictionary disk when running QuickSpell.  Using two dictionary
disks is too much to ask of Joe Average AppleWorks User.

5.25" floppies are very limited in their capacity.  Developers didn't forget
about these limits; that's why they introduced 3.5" 800k drives.

-- jeffj@pro-avalon

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