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From: vita@daredevil.crd.ge.com (Mark F Vita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWrite II 1.1
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Date: 13 Oct 89 17:02:40 GMT
References: <5512@merlin.usc.edu> <10601@claris.com>
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In article <10601@claris.com> jake@claris.com (Char Fugel) writes:
>MacWrite II v1.1 was announced Oct. 3, 1989. It includes loads more file
>translators than the interim version. In addition, there's a 100K reduction in
>the size of the program and the speed has been increased by 15-50% on Mac Plus
>and SE's depending on function.  

How about the "typing in text" function :-)?  I think MacWrite II is a
very nice program; it would probably become my word processor of
choice if not for one critical flaw: typing is VEERRRYY slow on my SE.
Not quite as bad as say, FullWrite, but bad enough to make heavy text
entry quite an aggravating experience.  Even crufty old MacWrite 5.0
was faster at entering text.

Also, does "100K reduction in size" refer to the size of the file on
disk, or the size of the required Multifinder partition (or both)?

Mark Vita                              vita@crd.ge.com
General Electric CRD               	..!uunet!crd.ge.com!vita
Schenectady, NY