Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!uva!borton
From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Fullwrite Pro -- Six Months Later
Message-ID: <566@uva.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 88 17:10:33 GMT
References: <75917@sun.uucp> <768@esquire.UUCP> <6565@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <6565@ihlpf.ATT.COM> straka@ihlpf.UUCP (55223-Straka,R.J.) writes:
>In article <768@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>A ~80K Writenow file took ~20 MINUTES to convert to raw text (on a Plus)!
>
>Evidently, not all is quite lightning-fast with WriteNow.

The 'Translator' program that comes with WriteNow is distinctly not up to par
with the marvellous programming done in WN.

Here is another case of 'bad programming' -- the routines I have now to read
the text from a WriteNow file into my text editor DA would do that 80K job in
the realm of 50-200 seconds (offhand guess, based on memory of a 50K file).

Those routines will be appearing eventually in SigmaEdit...

-cbb
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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS