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From: gmb@iclswe.uucp (Grahame Budd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: wordprocessors on ami
Message-ID: <1990Apr11.113649.21525@iclswe.uucp>
Date: 11 Apr 90 11:36:49 GMT
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UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes:

>I use WP too, and it is OK.  There are a few things I don't like about it.
>Perhaps I am just looking at it the wrong way.

>3.  SPELL is an awful disk grinder.  Thank god I've got memory and FACCII.

I havn't noticed this. It seems about as fast as other systems I've used. Is
there a diference between the versions? ( I'm using 4.1.11, UK, adapted for
Swedish and Danish).

>4.  Exporting a text file removes all the WP codes, rather than translating
>their results.  For example, if a paragraph is Indented (F4), then the
>Exported text should have an indented paragraph (padded by spaces, say).

Yes. Bit of a problem this. I find that in many cases one can print to a DOS
text file and use that instead. Using the PrintDef program to customise the
DOS text "printer driver" so that it only produces characters acceptable to
your destination system, is very easy. I chose the WordPerfect/Amiga combination
because of this and the wide range of disc formats the Amiga can use.

>Still, it does the job, and only crashes occasionally. 8-)

Never had a crash. Had a lockup once running three documents, the printer driver
queue and SimCity together. :-)