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From: cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Technical Word Processing
Summary: seems fast to me...
Message-ID: <3762@newton.physics.purdue.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 90 00:59:35 GMT
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Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept, W.Lafayette, IN
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> I don't get it.  I've played with the FullWrite Demo a bit, and I
> can't figure out how it is finding such devotees.  The problem: it's
> incomprehensibly, fantastically SLOW (on my IIcx with 8 Meg.).  The other
> day I tried a search/replace on a document with less than 10 pages and it
> took something like 15 minutes!!!

I use FW 1.1 on a II (1500K MF partition) and on a IIci (1124K MF
partition).  On the IIci, I just took a 15 page document and replaced
all double spaces with single spaces.  It took 13 seconds.

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