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From: gordon@uw-june (John Whitmore)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: WordHandler, from ALS systems (flame)
Message-ID: <1177@uw-june>
Date: Thu, 28-Aug-86 22:58:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: uw-june.1177
Posted: Thu Aug 28 22:58:32 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 29-Aug-86 23:25:45 EDT
Reply-To: gordon@uw-june.UUCP (John Whitmore)
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Organization: U of Washington Computer Science, Seattle
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Summary: See figure 1


	Touted as a replacement for MacWrite, they guarantee you'll
like their program or your money back (within fifteen days).
They also offer a special discount price if you send in your MacWrite
disk, "You can have it back if you don't agree WordHandler is better".
So, I sent in my $30.  Getting the disk, I tried WordHandler, found
it was IMMENSE (179k), balky, and entirely bletcherous to use.
So, I sent it back and asked for my MacWrite disk back.
Reply from ALS: "We don't refund the special discount deal", and if
I want my original MacWrite disk back, "Send $25 for shipping and
handling".  If it costs them that much for shipping and handling one
floppy, then I bought the WordHandler software and manual for $4.95
and they charged $29.95 only because they had to "ship and handle" it.
I don't blame them; you couldn't hire me to touch their program for
such a paltry sum.  It doesn't paste-in graphics like MacWrite, otherwise
has one or two minor improvements, copies ALL the bad features, and
makes a lot of the normal-use operations more awkward.
My comment on ALS software: see Fig. 1

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John Whitmore,  uw-beaver!uw-june!phastvax!whit,  whit@uwaphast.bitnet