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From: elfj@hp1.ccs.cornell.edu (Iroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: FullWrite
Message-ID: <181@hp1.ccs.cornell.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 88 18:30:55 GMT
Organization: Cornell Computer Services, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: Fullwrite, Word 3.01


 I've been using a beta of FullWrite for some time now, and it's great!

I have some comments to add to what others have said:

First, someone was having problems with the margins while printing on the
Imagewriter (sorry I don't have a quote).  No, you weren't doing anthing
wrong, the problem is being worked on.

I have had two 40 page single spaced documents open at once on a Mac Plus,
so memory is not two tight, allow it will no start up with less than 1 Meg
under Multifinder.  And since it uses virtual memory by chapters, only your
chapter length is limited by amount of memory.  Disk space limits total doc
length.

"An informed source" reports that the ability to read Word 3.01 documents
was added in the last few days.  I was so excited by that I forgot to ask
if it will write them as well.

Also, in the licensing of the dictionary and thesaurus from Microlytics,
AAS got the rights to medical, legal and several foreign language dicts as
well.  They are being worked on and will eventually be released.

BTW, in the demo disk from Claris, the dictionary for MacWrite 5.0 has the
same icon as the dict and thes. on the first beta of FW I saw.  Does this
mean Claris also got the dictionary from Microlytics?  The speller interface
of MacWrite is at least superficially different from FullWrite's.

Anyway, I am told bugs are slowly being squashed (mostly obscure ones) and
the program will definitely be released within a few weeks.  Keep waiting;
it's worth it!!

Linda Iroff
Humanities Computing Center
Cornell University
elfj@crnlvax5.bitnet