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From: macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MacWrite 5.0 help
Message-ID: <79883@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 16:26:27 GMT
References: <4573@lib.tmc.edu>
Reply-To: macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
Organization: University of Pittsburgh, CIS
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In article <4573@lib.tmc.edu> cyn@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (Cyndi Smith) writes:
>
>Some friends of mine are having a problem with the MW 5.0 spell-checker.  
>Whenever they invoke it and tell it to check the document, it promptly 
>erases the document.  Not good.

MacWrite 5.0 only works with system 6.0.3 and earlier.  On 6.0.4 and beyond
it is known to eat documents.

>I recommended upgrading to MW II or some other word processor, but they (a 
>university newspaper and yearbook staff) LIKE MW 5.0.

So do I, it's much simpler than MacWrite II.  MacWrite II is more like MS Word
with a liveable interface :-).  I think Claris should modify MacWrite II to 
work with later systems, and sell it to us poor folk who buy Classics to write
5-page college reports for about $100.  I think that was the price before MW II
came out at $295.

>
>Cyndi Smith
>cyn@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu

Dennis Lippert  - macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu