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From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWrite 5.0
Keywords: Hey! I thought they fixed this!
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Date: 14 Jun 88 15:30:52 GMT
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In article <3754@saturn.ucsc.edu> sidhe@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Solas Sidhe--ye faerie fyre) writes:
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>
>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.

Under the older MacWrites (and I assume 5.0 since they did nix to it but add
a Spelling checker, big deal) it takes a year and a day to open a doc of
that size.  I bet if you waited 10 minutes it would have shown up on the
screen.  I once changed the font on a 60 pager on macwrite and it took 7
minutes.

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

Word is nice like that.

>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...

Nope, word doesn't ask.  It atomatically does LineBreaks (I am pretty sure
about this).  MacWrite didn't choke, it was trying to think... and trying
and trying...

>I thought MacWrite wasn't supposed to choke on large files anymore.

HA!  I'll believe it when I see it.

>I guess I'll have to stick to the Wordprocessor From Hell (tm), 
>MS Word...

Aww, it isn't *that* bad... granted, I like FWP better, but for fast write
and print I use MSWord.

>   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>    >>                   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 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

-Andy


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