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From: FlashsMom@cup.portal.com (NancyAnn none Sheridan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: whatever happened to MindWrite? Oh no.
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Date: 9 Sep 90 02:35:16 GMT
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>If you're a heavy user of outlines - or think you'd like to be - 
>you need to take a lool at this....
Acta is *far* more solid (get used to crashes, misfeatures, and bad design
if you use MindWrite; details on request), and not much less powerful.
 
>very good introductory price ($40 seems familiar). 
Fair price, not good.  You also get a T-shirt.
>higher-powered version which contains numerous import filters for 
>converting from other Mac *AND IBM* WP programs.
No, only for IBM.  It won't even import MicroSoft RTF files, which is
supposed to be the standard.  It will, however, import MicroSoft Word files,
very badly.  To convert a WriteNow file, I had to convert it to RTF, then
steal Word to convert the RTF, then open it in MindWrite, then discard Word.
 It wasn't worth the effort.---
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