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From: richard@claris.com (Richard Scorer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWrite II vs. Word 4.0
Message-ID: <10162@claris.com>
Date: 15 May 89 23:58:11 GMT
References: <13358@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <10071@claris.com> <14788@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Reply-To: richard@claris.com (Richard Scorer)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <14788@comp.vuw.ac.nz> alex@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Alex Heatley) writes:
|And now for those of us who spend a lot of time recovering crashed hard
|disks, smashed floppies and corrupted files...
|
|Does MacWrite II still use the wonderful MacWrite file compression scheme?
|
| ...
|
|So Claris, have you dropped the compression scheme? And have you any plans
|to make your files more robust and easy to recover?
|
Yes.  There is _no_ compression scheme in the MacWrite II file format.


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