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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Mac Owner-type Needs Help
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Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 18:05:37 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 18:05:37 1987
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>A friend of mine is buying a Mac Plus soon, and he wants me to help him
>plot what software he should buy (he knows nothing about computers, I'm the
>CS major). 
>
>His needs are: 1. a word processor
>               2. a paint program
> 
>
>The word processor is the most important aspect to him. Programs Plus sells
>MacWrite for $99, and there wasn't anything cheaper I could recognize.

Does he want good, or cheap?  If decent/cheap is the basis, then look at
WriteNow.  Better than macwrite, good reports on the net, but nowhere near
the power or flexibility of Word.

If he needs a serious, heavy duty word processor, look at Word 3.01. 

both of these, I believe, have built in spell checkers.  If not, I recommend
Spellswell.

To a good degree, you'll find you get what you pay for.

>On the paint program, FullPaint lists in the catalog for less than MacPaint.

Fullpaint is a good, solid product.  I also find I've never bothered to use
it since I bought Superpaint, which is the same price and blows it away in
functionality and toys.  Buy superpaint. 

chuq
Chuq Von Rospach	chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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