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From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: McSink - nothing for a speedy typist!
Message-ID: <20840@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 11 Mar 89 09:56:47 GMT
References: <601@tekno.chalmers.se>
Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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In article <601@tekno.chalmers.se> d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se (Sven (Sciz) Axelsson) writes:
>I just got McSink V6.5 from the net and it looks good. I have found a few
>things, though, that makes me hesitate to pay the shareware fee or even to
>buy the full-featured commercial version.
>
>The text editor (in other aspects fine; can handle large [>32K] files) is
>IMMENSLY slow. When I have typed a few words, I have to sit back and wait

 Me too, me too... I'm running 6.0.3 on a 2 MB Plus, and the delay between
characters typed and characters displayed is GLACIAL. A thought that
occurred to me is that in deliberately crippling the product for the
shareware market, the "dynamic spell checking" feature somehow was frozen
in the "on" position, and each char typed must get "processed" first. The
previous version (6.2a) had perfectly normal typing response, so I suspect
it's probably just an oversight. Considering this version was accompanied
by an increase in the shareware fee, though, it doesn't look too good.


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