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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GDOS font format and more fonts questions
Message-ID: <5440015@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 89 20:48:29 GMT
References: <8903090435.AA21221@dudley-doright.ksr.com>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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|Also, I've seen references in STart and other places praising G+Plus.  Does
|anyone have a quick review of this?  I understand it's faster than GDOS (does
|it have higher quality (i.e. fewer bugs and/or increased performance)?), though
|I don't find GDOS's speed to be real annoying (I don't use a lot of graphics in
|DTP, which I understand is a big part of the problem).  
|----------

I received my copy of G+Plus last night (along with LDW Power). I fired  up
LDW Power with GDOS and it was pretty snappy re-displaying when paging and
scrolling. I installed G+Plus and it was noticeably faster. I put G+Plus into
"solid" mode and it was faster still - i.e. damn fast! My initial impression
is very favorable for both programs.

The curious thing is that LDW states that GDOS is necessary only for saving
spreadsheets and printing graphs. What's GDOS doing the rest time - getting
in the way?

G+Plus comes with a manual that might as well be called "All You Ever Wanted
to Know About GDOS But Were Afraid to Ask". As if that wasn't enough, there's
also a disk file that expounds further!

I'll be installing G+Plus on my Easy Draw disk next and that should prove
interesting!


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