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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Technical Word Processing
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Date: 5 Jun 90 14:25:07 GMT
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In article <1990Jun5.064509.28386@ve7apu.uucp> spraggs@ve7apu.UUCP (John Spraggs) writes:
>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.

If you're doing a lot of text processing, I'd recommend QUED 2.07
from Paragon Concepts.  It's nothing short of amazing.

We get people coming in who have grabbed text off a mainframe
with imbeded spaces that they want to convert to an import file
or a Word merge document.  QUED will strip LFs, replace spaces with
tabs, built-in GREP, etc.  That 5 minutes would have been under 30
seconds with QUED.

Ken
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