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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A Few Good Rumors... (NeWS on Mac)
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Date: 29 Feb 88 01:01:37 GMT
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>PS: Doesn't anyone but me think that Word 3.01 is *still* flaky?

>    My
>    favourite is its occasional tendency to crash if you customize the
>    menus - you then can't start Word until you delete its settings file
>    from your system folder. Don't tell me it works for you - *most* of
>    its bugs are non-deterministic.

I run thousands of words a month through Word 3.01 with heavily customized
menus, and I've never had it crash.

>I have noticed that almost everytime something goes wrong under multifinder
>one of two programs has been, or is, running:
>
>Microsoft Word 3.01

Word 3.01 is not completely Multifinder compatible. It'lll hang up other
programs running in the background (especially nasty when the background
process is Red Ryder doing a download). it won't deal with the Multifinder
icon on the menubar properly. But I've yet to crash it. Are you running it
in the insanely small memory partition the SIZE resource gives it? Try
putting it in a 640K or larger partition and I'll bet your Word problems go
away. 

The first serious word processor that is MultiFinder compatible will get my
business. I can't afford a program that doesn't cooperate..... The only
question is whether it'll be Word 4.0 or FullWrite.... 


Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

     There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
                               Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment, 1977