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From: carsup@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Fisher Library support)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Finder 7.0 suggestion
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.035410.11219@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Date: 2 Aug 90 03:54:10 GMT
References: <2695@<956> <70500015@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1433@camex.COM>
Reply-To: carsup@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Fisher Library support)
Organization: University Computing Service, Uni. of Sydney, Australia.
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In article <70500015@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>> It would be nice if System7 had a Spelling Manager with a standard
>> dictionary and the ability to add specialized dictionaries
>> (Engineering, Medical, etc.).
>
>Better yet, system 7.0 needs a "word-stream" manager -- a program that
>lets you pipe text through a processing program.  Especially:
>
>(1) spelling checkers.
>(2) grammar checkers.
>(3) machine translation programs.

One thing that worries me is the size of the Mac system. It is already very
large ( I have one that does not fit onto a 800k floppy !), Imagine
how large it would be if a grammar checker was added !
Oh well, the price of Hard Disks are dropping ! ;-) (600Meg here we come ...)

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