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From: rona@hpdml93.HP.COM (Ron Abramson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: One Final WordUp Question
Message-ID: <480023@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Mar 89 00:38:05 GMT
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 terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (Eric Terrell) writes:


>One more question about WordUp.  Is it possible to run out of memory
>when using this product on a 520 ST to edit a large (~ 80 page) document?

>Some word processors can edit documents which are larger than the 
>available memory by paging back and forth between memory and disk 
>(e.g. MS WRITE).  Is WordUp one of these?

I have run into the RAM limit with WordUp.  No, it doesn't swap with
the disk in any mode I know of.

The only time that I've run out of memory was when I tried loading a lot
of fonts and opened several documents at once.  Since then, I went from
1 meg to 4.  Needless to say, I haven't had any trouble since then.  One
drawback of WordUp is that printouts take a long time since everything
is printed in graphics mode.  There is an ASCII printout option, but its
pretty crude.  I would expect that any program which used GDOS fonts in
the printout would suffer from slow printing.

Often, I still use good ole 1st Word if I don't need fancy fonts.  If I
want fonts, I use WordUp.  

All in all, I highly recommend WordUp.

ron abramson