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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
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Subject: Re: NISUS wordprocessor
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Date: 5 Apr 89 21:41:22 GMT
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In article <28430@apple.Apple.COM> mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes:
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>But it can't read MS Word quick-save files nor can it save to MacWrite (although
>it can get around the latter by copying into the clipboard)...
>

But it *can* read MS Word files which aren't quick-saved (both directly
and through RTF).  As a test, I converted an 80-page Word doc to see
how well it worked, and what blew me away was the incredible speed at
which it opened the file.  Needless to say, the formatting was perfectly
intact.

I'm hoping to finish a longish discussion of Nisus for the next issue
of the BMUG Newsletter, and I expect the review will mostly complimentary.
Nisus does lack a few things, but for people looking for some of the
power of UNIX character-based editors which heretofore has been missing
from Mac word-processing programs, Nisus has a lot to offer.

Usual disclaimers apply...

John Heckendorn
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