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From: spraggs@ve7apu.uucp (John Spraggs - VE7ADE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Technical Word Processing
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.064509.28386@ve7apu.uucp>
Date: 5 Jun 90 06:45:09 GMT
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Reply-To: spraggs@ve7apu.UUCP (John Spraggs)
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>Summary: FullWrite Demo takes 15 min vs. FullWrite takes 13 sec to make a 
>         bunch of global changes.

A possible cause is automatic repaginate.  If FullWrite is anything like 
Word 4.0, you will notice an enormous difference.  I had a 200k text file that 
took more than 8 hours to change about 700 CR characters to LFs.  The disk 
was being accessed continuously and the % complete digit was taking tens of 
minutes to increment.

The whole thing completed in less than 5 minutes with automatic repaginate
off.  This was with a 1 Meg Mac+ and a CMS-80 external HD.

I've never used FullWrite, so I'm just guessing, but the discrepancy has to
be in a mode setting or something similar.

Good Luck,
John