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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite on shelves
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Date: 13 May 88 15:42:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr    May 13 10:42:00 1988


jmunkki@santra.UUCP(Juri Munkki) writes in comp.sys.mac

>{Lots and Lots Removed}
>I did some digging with TMON (and removed the demo text from my demo version)
>and found out that FullWrite uses packed code resources. It checks if the code
>is packed and unpacks every time it loads from disk. Unfortunately it has a lot
>of code resources to unpack when it starts up, so it is very slow. Fortunately
>it does check first if the code is packed (I bet they use an unpacked version
>of FullWrite at Ann Arbor and Aston Tate). I wrote a small FKEY that saves a
>code resource once that it has been unpacked. It worked fine, but I haven't had
>time to do any serious experimenting. Of course an unpacked version of FullWrite
>no longer fits on a disk, but then again...who cares.
>
	You've got it exactly.  The reason for the packed code resources IS SO IT
WOULD FIT ON FLOPPY!!  There is no reason why you could not do exactly as 
Juri has done and save lots of time on startup.  In fact, if you could post
the FKEY (or the source) there are others of us who would like to do that as 
well.

>I would REALLY like to get in touch with the developers of FullWrite. (E-Mail
>would be great and TeleFAX is ok...) I'd like to help them internationalize
>FullWrite because we need a version with Finnish hyphenation and probably
>a Finnish spelling checker too. So, if you know how to contact them, please
>tell me how.
	Don't hold your breath!!  Unfortunately, do to many things that they had
to do to get FullWrite to be FullWrite, they had to do some things that will/do
make internationalization VERY difficult (if not impossible!).  I (and others_)
had discussions with them relatively early in development about Script Manager
compat and the answer was IMPOSSIBLE!!
	I wish I could get it to work at least 'sort of' with ANY of the Int'l
Scripts, but alas, NO!  Not even the draw layer works (but it does work better
than the main program!!!)


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