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From: cheeser@dasys1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite Professional
Message-ID: <1825@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 23:31:10 EST
Article-I.D.: dasys1.1825
Posted: Tue Oct 27 23:31:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 02:04:19 EST
References: <171@stech.UUCP> <1717@dasys1.UUCP> <31502@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: cheeser@dasys1.UUCP (Les Kay)
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
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In article <31502@sun.uucp> Chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>I can't tell you how glad I am that I was able to default on those book
>contracts, save all the time on those articles I was supposed to write. I
>couldn't do it. I don't have a Real Word Processor. I'm glad my publisher is
>so understanding.
>At least I still have macwrite, so I can write letters to my mother. She
>Wouldn't Understand....
>[The proceeding was an unpaid satirical announcement. Anyone who can say
> that waiting over a year for a product after the initial (missed) ship date
> ought to have their head examined. I don't care HOW good it is -- my
> writing doesn't wait for a software house to get its act together.


Gee, Chuq, glad to hear your publishers are so understanding -- wish mine
were! B^)  Too bad about your having to use MacWrite to write those letters
to your mother...You could have phoned, though.

Of course, you did understand full well that I meant that i would rather
wait and receive a more thoroughly debugged product, with enhanced features 
than what seems to be the standard these days:  Products that do not have
most of the features that the 'eventual' completed product will have and, 
with what is there, most of it doesn't work as advertised, or doesn't work
at all...  MSWord comes to mind...bought version 1.0, now, long YEARS later,
it is, at what, 3.01?  3.05, 3.1, 69.000284645? still a peice of sh..

Of course, some people enjoy watching a program, one basically incompatible
with most of the rest of the software available for the Mac, 'evolve' into
something pretty near to functional.

I don't have that kind of time or patients. . . .

As for missing the release date, even by a year, so?  At least this makes them
no worse than most, and from what I've seen of the software, to quote myself,
"It was worth the wait!"

I have enough broken software on my Amiga, enough deadbeat, slow and 
clumsy software on my IBM (compatible), junk on my CP/M systems and
almost really good, but not quite, on my Apple //gs.  On my Mac II I want
something a little better.  FullWrite does it for me, or will shortly.

Different (key)stokes for different folks. . . .

cheeser

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