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From: takahash@bnrmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite Professional Demo
Message-ID: <3295@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 20:12:25 GMT
References: <39102@sun.uucp> <2679@fluke.COM>
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Mtn. View, CA
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In article <2679@fluke.COM>, moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
> The only real inconvenience I can think of will be that, as of the beta
> version, FullWrite doesn't read Word files (1.05 or 3.x).  It does read
> MacWrite files (Chuq, please test those out with the demo version -- see how
> well it runs), so you can convert most of your Word files downward.  If that
> is true for the release, it will be a little awkward during the switch from
> Word to FullWrite -- possibly more than some people who have become
> accustomed to Word will want to make.  Not me, though -- having worked on
> the FW beta for the weekend (with docs), my opinion of FW is about twice as
> enthusiastic as Chuq's is.

I did talk to a salescritter at the booth, and he said that Word 1.05/3.0?
compatibility will NOT come out with this version of FullWrite.  The reason?
Microsoft hadn't told them about how the Word files are formatted.  Should
be coming out in the next version, though.

BTW, I LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE (*pant pant*) this program!!!!!

Another BTW: any comments about WordPerfect's 'betaware'?  Nice concept, eh?
             (Well, I THINK it's WordPerfect.  My sales literature is at 
              home, though...)

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