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From: humphrey@skat.usc.edu (Steve Humphrey)
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Subject: Re: FullWrite Professional?
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Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 03:28:33 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 19 03:28:33 1987
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Keywords: FullWrite Professional, Vaporware?

In article <2238@mulga.oz> jteh@mulga.oz (J.T. Teh) writes:
>In the September issue of US MacUser, there was a 2-page ad for
>FullWrite Professional saying that it was on the streets. 
>Has anyone seen it on the streets yet or is it still vaporware? If 
>anyone has bought a copy, could they post a preview of it onto the news? 

I got to play with it for about a half hour a couple of weeks ago.
The copy I played with was beta, so I doubt that they're shipping
(though I don't remember what the Ann Arbor rep said).

I realy liked some of the features, but didn't really get to play long
enough to remember exactly what I liked.  Specifically, footnotes,
pictures, chapter references, etc seemed much easier and intuitive
than Word et al.

However, I got el bombo without too much effort: with the spelling
checker if I remember full right  :-) .

BTW. . . . .

I am somewhat worried that most packages have far too many features.
I.E.  FullWrite has a MacDraw like capability for creating pictures.
With multifinder coming out, shouldn't software be DEcentralizing,
that is, performing a single function.  I know a product like MS Works
was needed before multifinder, but now wouldn't software be better if
we could choose only the modules (programs) that we will be actually
using.  

I remember so ex-Apple guru commenting on this (don't remember who).
He was upset that even Write Now (a product he otherwise thought was
the ultimate Mac w.p. environment) had included a spelling checker.

Comments?
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