Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!hacgate!ashtate!dbase!awd From: awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: FullWrite Professional Summary: Powerful machines only need apply... Message-ID: <147@dbase.UUCP> Date: 9 Jul 89 00:39:22 GMT References: Organization: Ashton Tate Devlopment Center Glendale, Calif. Lines: 31 In article , stiber@cs.ucla.edu (Michael D Stiber) writes: > ...I would be interested in the opinions > of those who have experience working with [FullWrite]. > Michael Stiber Email always bounces--I don't want to send things twice . FullWrite is an Ashton-Tate product, but of a different division, so I'm responding as a user. I think the sense of comments on the net a few months ago was "Great program, needs a Mac II with significant memory." I agree, with emphasis on "Great program." I just wrote a book using FullWrite--it's a fantastic tool, better than anything I've ever seen (which does not include Word 4.0). However, I have a Mac II with 5MB. I've used FW on other people's 1MB Mac IIs and its okay, but I sure wouldn't recommend it to those with lesser Macs. FullWrite's neat features include wrapping to irregular objects, built-in drawing program, oh, heck--it has lots of neat features. In the course of writing this book, I got it to crash a couple of times (version 1.0-- version 1.1 is the current release), but it is generally very stable. From the comments on the net, only Word 4.0 approaches FullWrite in power--Word 4.0's big thing is managing tables like a spreadsheet. Yeah, but can Word place a 50% gray PICT under the text? Anyway, those are a few comments from a happy FullWrite user. /alastair/ Disclaimer: I work on PCs not Macs for Ashton-Tate, but you do have to factor in that I didn't pay for my copy of FullWrite. Anyway, my comments are personal and unofficial.