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From: adp@moscom.UUCP (Alan Percy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Timeworks WordWriter 2.0 thesaurus crashes
Message-ID: <1276@moscom.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 12:12:36 GMT
References: <430@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Reply-To: adp@moscom.UUCP (Alan Percy)
Organization: Moscom Corp., E. Rochester, NY
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In article <430@arisia.Xerox.COM> bane@arisia.Xerox.COM (John R. Bane) writes:
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>I've run into a strange bug in the latest update of Timeworks WordWriter (2.0).
>It seems that searching the thesaurus for any word beginning with 'w' causes
>the program to crash...

I haven't tried your bug, but I would like to make some general comments
on Timeworks software.

>It's a decent program other than this, considering the price.  Now, if they'd 
>only answer their 800 number or their mail...

Generally I like the price performance of the Timeworks software for the
Atari ST.  I have been using Swiftcalc, Wordwriter 2.0, and Data Manager.
Unfortunatly, they all are full of bugs.  Most of the bugs have reasonable
work-arounds. Except for Wordwriter, they have made no attempt to
come out with new versions lately.  Most of the bugs pop up when you 
are using the program with a hard disk.  Some of them are just dumb, 
like Data Manager leaves the screen backgound colors at it's setting 
when it exits.

What I would like to hear about from you folks, is Timeworks Desktop
publishing software any better?  Even if it have a few bugs, I can live
with that, but if it is like the beta version of Pro PP, then I'll skip it.

I've been using EasyDraw for a couple years, with some updates.  It has
some limitations, but is relativly bug-free.  I guess I'm looking for
advice as to whether Timeworks Desktop Publishing is more useful for
newsletters and catalogs.  EasyDraw is great for presentation overheads,
maps, and other technical diagrams, but multi-page newsletters get
to be a bear.

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Alan Percy..........................{rutgers,ames,cmcl2}!rochester!moscom!adp