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Date: 8 Sep 90 03:41:14 GMT
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Category 18,  Topic 54
Message 116       Fri Sep 07, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 00:28 EDT
 
Re: ns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Nick Solntseff)

 > So a 650 K document needs at least 1.3 MB of disk space which
 > makes repagination, etc., extremely slow unless one uses RAM DISK
 > to contain the document.

I see what you mean Nick.  I will see if I can convince them to break it up
into smaller pieces.  I certainly agree that it is slow when it comes to
repagination and stuff.

I've also now confirmed that the Word5 document can not be loaded into Word
for Windows.  I ran out of memory before it got half way through the
conversion.  For those struggling with that one, I found that Word5's RTF
conversion could be used first, and then it loads into WINWORD fine (well
almost).  WINWORD has decided that words marked for the index don't appear in
the normal document so you have to turn on View Field Codes to see all the
text.  I'm still going to try doing some other conversions before being
convinced that it can't handle it but WINWORD is not looking too compatable.

Trying to work out the details before BASIS13.

DaR
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