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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Word Tools
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Date: 17 Oct 88 16:25:45 GMT
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>Anyone here tried Doug Clapp's "Word Tools" recently? I found the
>tool to be quite good, but then it died on Word 3.x files, and I'm
>not about to go around editing text only versions of my files, then
>trying to find their corresponding parts in their Word versions.

I bought it when it came out, and immediately ran into a number of problems
(The word 3.0 file was just one of them. It only reads word 1.05 files,
although that's not documented. It just *seems* to read 3.0 files, and then
hangs). I talked to the software house about it, adn was told that they'd be
fixing and improving things in the next version, which was supposedly due
out last April. 

There's been no update, and I've heard nothing about an upcoming update.
From what I can tell, the program's been orphaned as it is, major flaws,
limitations and system crashing ability not-withstanding.

Me, I've pulled it off my disk. For what it did for me, it wasn't worth it.
Of course, they still have my money, and I have a program I can't use. So it
goes....



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