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From: sidhe@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Solas Sidhe--ye faerie fyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MacWrite 5.0
Keywords: Hey! I thought they fixed this!
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Date: 14 Jun 88 07:55:33 GMT
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I just made MacWrite 5.0 lock up.  I was converting a UNIX vi file to MacWrite
format (which is just newline=return for paragraph breaks...).  Anyway, the file
was big, about 98 pages long.  When I opened the file, I got the usual dialog
that asked me if I wanted to convert it, I clicked on the paragraph button.
So it gives me the watch cursor while it converts the document.  No big deal
yet.  The fun started when I got a beep and the cursor reverted back to the 
normal arrow, but no text appeared.  I had the MacWrite menubar and the blank
desktop.  So I tried clicking on the menubar.  Nothing happens, I can't pull
down any menus.  So I try clover-W to attempt to at least close the document.
Didn't work either.  So then I try clover-. to attempt to kill the process.
THAT didn't work.  Now I decide that I'm in big trouble and I use the 
programmer's switch to restart the machine, since I can't get out of MacWrite
and I can't get anything in MacWrite to work...

The moral:  I opened it under MS Word 3.02 and it worked fine.

Here's another strange thing:  I never got the Word dialogue to convert the
doc, so it appears that MacWrite at least did do that...I think it just
choked when it tried to display the converted text...

I thought MacWrite wasn't supposed to choke on large files anymore.
I guess I'll have to stick to the Wordprocessor From Hell (tm), 
MS Word...

Disclaimer:  The University neither knows nor cares about anything I have to 
             say.

   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    >>                   Lee M. Thompson          >> 
     >>    (`             sidhe@ucscb.UCSC.EDU   >>
    >>    (_)olas (`                          >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
  >>             (_)idhe    "Verily, I shall stomp their pointy>>
>>                           little heads into pie plates."  >>
>>DISCLAIMER: [SARCASM ALERT!] You're just being oversensitive >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>