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From: kosma%stc-sun@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Word Processors??
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Date: 16 Mar 90 19:44:02 GMT
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   From: Paul Cardwell <CCUCARD%indsvax1.bitnet@uicvm.uic.edu>
   Date: 15 Mar 90 19:05:18 GMT


   All,
	 Does anyone out in Amiga-Land know of a Word Processor that doesn't
	 keep all DATA (TEXT) in memory?., but saves parts of the TEXT to
	 a temporary file?

	 I mean, why have the whole document in RAM, but have it on disk.
	 This way a 512k Amiga owner could write a 700k file and
	 not worry about RAM being sucked away.

	 This would be good even for users with 9 megs of RAM.  I know 9 megs
	 is a lot, but a 44meg removable hard drive (GVP) could hold a huge
	 document.

	 Its true that using the floppy drive would be somewhat slower, but for
	 those who have hard drives wouldn't have to worry.

	 What do you Amiga lovers think?? I know I'd like atleast the OPTION.

this really ought to be there...I mean, my word processor (superscribe or
something like that) on the Apple II+ let you do this (but I guess on the
apple II+ with only 48K memory it was sort of more important to be able to
do this...).