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From: alu@cbnewsk.att.com (Alan Lustiger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Is Write for Windows 3.0 for real?
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.204045.10989@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 9 Jan 91 20:40:45 GMT
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Actually, I think that Write has its purposes:

1) It can be used as an ASCII text editor when the file is
too large for Notepad or you need to do search/replace
(all assuming that you don't have another editor...)

2) It is a good editor front end for PageMaker, until 
Aldus comes out with 4.0. PageMaker can be very slow 
when editing text, but it can import .WRI files nicely.

3) It is not *that* slow: it seems faster to me than WfW 
and Ami Pro for straight text editing. 

4) It certainly comes up faster than Ami Pro or WfW,
so if I have to test out a new font or printer, I use
Write.

5) It may take up 200K, but have you installed any major
applications lately? Corel (without clipart) takes 6 Meg!
Designer and Ami Pro and WfW and Current all take up
*A LOT OF DISK SPACE*! (I'm worried about the next Excel
release...) I love Windows and these applications, but
soon Windows will need a 200 Meg hard drive just to load
all the major categories of applications!

Just my $.02.
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               		Alan Lustiger
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