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From: ix21@sdcc6.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: WriteNow
Message-ID: <3043@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU>
Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 03:29:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 26 03:29:08 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Jan-87 01:48:17 EST
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Reply-To: ix21@sdcc6.ucsd.edu.UUCP (David Whiteman)
Organization: UCSD School of Medicine
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I recently posted an article about WriteNow, a word processing
program to replace MacWrite and Microsoft Word, and I was flooded
with letters about the program.  Sad to say I have only ran the
program once, so I cannot comment about it.  The main reason is that
I have a huge personalized dictionary of medical terminology, and I
just don't have the time to repersonalize the WriteNow dictionary.
I am sorry if people have took this as a criticism of the program.
I know two people who say that it is the greatest word processing
program written, and one lawyer who says it has a feature that allows
him to print on some special paper that lawyers are required to use.

Paul Menon also made a posting of my comment about their translation
program.  I stated before that WriteNow's most glaring flaw is that
you have to use a separate translation program.  I thought that it
was wrong to write WriteNow so it can not save a text file.  You
have to run the utility program to go to or from text, and go from
MS Word and MacWrite format to WriteNow format.  There is no way
except via text of going from WriteNow format to either MS Word or
MacWrite format.  Also of interest they announce a special format
for 3rd party companies to use WriteNow documents.  So if you buy a
3rd party program to perform some operation on a WriteNow document
you will have to use the utility program first.

Anyway enclosed with the program is a demo version of WriteNow.  I
will send a copy to the mod.mac moderator as soon as my disk drive
is fixed.  So stop sending me letters and try the sample program
itself.
-- 
David Whiteman,
University of California, San Diego 

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