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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: WriteNow vs. Mac II
Message-ID: <3359@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 88 06:24:22 GMT
References: <6092@cisunx.UUCP> <4259@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Recently, Ron Guest wrote:
> We tried WriteNow on our Mac II with terrible/disasterous results.  Our
> secretary was using it and ocassionaly when she would adjust a ruler
> WriteNow would bomb.  Since we consider program bombs a big bug, we threw
> the program out.  Other word processors behave much better on the II.  BTW,
> I called the WriteNow support people and they disavowed all knowledge of the
> bugs we mentioned and offered no suggestions.  We even had a WriteNow file
> that anytime you opened it caused WriteNow to bomb.  It was very sad.

and Mark A. Verber writes:
>
>I don't think the problem is WriteNow.  I have been using WriteNow
>from my II since late 1986 (we were a beta site).  We have had no
>problems with it.  It seems to run just fine all other the machines we
>have here which is pretty useful.

Here at Cornell, we have a site license for WriteNow, and I'm running the
Cornell version 1.07 which appears to be the commerical version of WriteNow
1.07 except it brings up a window on launch telling you about the Cornell
license.

Anyway, I've noticed that WriteNow's been kind of unstable on my Mac II
system (Mac II, 2Mb, Apple color video w/ expansion, DF20).  By unstable I
mean bombs occur occassionally.  Its gotten to a point where I'm pretty sure
that WriteNow is the culprit.  Often the bombs would occur after I invoke
the spell checker part of WriteNow.  The bombs also seem to occur less
frequently if you save often...anyway, the problem is bad enough that I now
distrust WriteNow, which is to say I don't consider it stable enough for any
serious work anymore.  Its really sad, I was pretty impressed with this word
processor a year ago on my Plus.

Christopher Chow
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