Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!gatech!purdue!decwrl!hplabs!sdcrdcf!csun!polyslo!dorourke From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: The FullWrite 1 Meg controversy Keywords: FullWrite Message-ID: <2914@polyslo.UUCP> Date: 26 May 88 16:13:29 GMT References: <2120@ur-tut.UUCP> Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke) Distribution: na Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo Lines: 51 In article <2120@ur-tut.UUCP> akk2@ur-tut (Atul Kacker) writes: >We have recently seen a spate of postings on what you can and can't do with >SidebarWrite, er... FullWrite. Can you run it on a 1 Meg Mac or not? Can you >do multiple and single columns on a single page? etcetera, etcetera.. Yes you can run it on 1 meg. I likes more memory though. Yes you can have multiple columns on a single page. >However, the 1 Meg controversy has still to be resolved. Perhaps someone who >has a 1Meg Mac AND has the shrink-wrap version of FullWrite can give a >definitive answer. 20 to 30 pages in one chapter at a time on a 1 meg machine. FullWrite breaks a document into chapter. The document can be as large as disk space allows, as long as each chapter can fit into memory. On one meg it's slow because it keeps swapping as much memory as possible to make room for the data. But it's not as slow as MacWrite, nor as fast as MS Word. It's usable. >What is the size of the largest document you can create on a 1 Meg Mac, that >has only text, before FullWrite complains about not having enough memry to >work with? How about a document that has a half page graphic on each page? >What is the largest document size in that case? Haven't tested the Max with graphics yet but it goes WAY down real fast! Here again though it's by chapter size, not document size. >What happens if someone creates a humongous document on a 5Meg machine and >hands it to someone who only has a 1Meg machine? Will FullWrite be able to >open that document? If not does it give the user an option to use only a >portion of the document at a time? I think you're out of luck. But the person on the 5 meg machine would've been warned if they had "1 meg limit" set in their preferences. I own a Dove 2 meg upgrade and I run FullWrite under "Normal" finder so that it has all the room it want. My RoomMate runs it under MultiFinder with 1250K, and doesn't seem to have any major problems. I think I'll start a slight controversy, if Ashton Tate needs to dump something to get the memory requirement down. How about the Picture drawing enviroment. I'd rather use a "real" drawing enviroment anyways. Comments, anyone just absolutly in love with FWP drawing enviroment. I'm not. The rest of the program is very very good, but the drawing enviroment might be a good canidate for axing. -- David M. O'Rourke Disclaimer: I don't represent the school. All opinions are mine!