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From: omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Is MacWrite 5.0 incompat with Sys 6.0.4 & newer?
Summary: Claris vs. Real Life?
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Date: 24 Aug 90 19:32:26 GMT
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Reply-To: omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
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Peter Colby (peter@hari.VIEWlogic.com) writes:
>John O'Malley (omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu) writes:
>> Does MacWrite 5.0 break while running under System 6.0.4 or 6.0.5?
>>   [John's thoughts about how he heard MacWrite would break
>>    in this situation]
>
>I have a version of MacWrite 5.0 (might be 5.01 or 5.1 or something like
>that) from Claris that works great on 6.0.4.

This is interesting.  I spoke with a person in Claris Tech Support after
posting my original note wondering if MacWrite 5.0 breaks under the latest
system software.

He said that MacWrite 5.0 has not been tested with System 6.0.4 or
6.0.5.  But he also said that MacWrite 5.0 is known to crash under those
systems.  The one specific problem he mentioned is that the spelling checker
can sometimes erase one's entire document.  MacWrite II, he said, has been
tested, etc. ...

Yet Peter in his above posting and three people in email messages all said
that they use MacWrite 5.0 on various Macs with System 6.0.4 and 6.0.5
without any problems.  (Thanks for your responses!)

I'm torn between using the word of someone in tech support, who presumably
has data to back up his claims, versus several people who have the setup
we need and report no problems.

Oh well.  In our particular situation, despite being more inclined to
think it'll work fine, we're gonna take the conservative & cautious
approach.  Our lab is going to have to do without MacWrite 5.0 for a while
so that we can upgrade the system software.  No big deal ...  all the
machines have Microsoft Word 4.0 anyway.

If need be, it'll be cheap to upgrade to MacWrite II down the road and
avoid the whole problem.

-John
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John O'Malley               / Macintosh  / Purdue University / (317)
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