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From: merchant@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Peter Merchant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Claris MacWrite 5.0
Message-ID: <8669@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 14 Apr 88 14:45:59 GMT
References: <576911329.0.LIPA@Polya.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY
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In article <576911329.0.LIPA@Polya.Stanford.EDU>, William J. Lipa writes:
> MacWrite still can die with a system error when you move the insertion
> point with the left and right arrows and then select undo.
> 
> MacWrite is more than twice as large even without the dictionary files. I
> can't believe the code for the spell checker is 100K, and I can't see any
> other major enhancements.

Claris was at the New York Mac Users' Group meeting a couple of weeks ago and
showed off MacWrite 5.0.  Their comment about it was that the code was so
complex that they didn't want to mess with it too much, for fear of
introducing lots of new bugs.  They said that there are plans for a complete
rewrite, but don't hold your breath.

They also showed off MacDraw II.  Pant.  Drool.
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"Save it 'til the morning after..."    Peter Merchant (merchant@eleazar.UUCP)