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From: UN027265@WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU (Eric Krichbaum)
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Subject: Review
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Date: 9 Mar 90 02:26:00 GMT
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Here it is...

First impressions:
1.)  It comes packaged with 4.0 and 5.0.2, so depending on your memory you can
use the fastest opsystem available to you.
2.)  Comes with 134 fonts.
3.)  Includes 2 disks full of clip art
4.)  Manual comes in a binder.  (impressively packaged and well written)
5.)  One of my favorites, *NOT COPY PROTECTED*!  Someone is listening to us.

Ok, this is going to be short, as I have a program due very soon.

        The program comes up quickly and seems to run as quickly.  Equipment
used:  IIgs w/1.75 meg, Epson FX-85 w/Grappler C/Mac/GS, 2 3.5" drives, no
hard drive.  I booted 5.0.2 with a 512K RAM disk enabled.  Copied the GWIII
program to the RAM drive and loaded it from there.

        A few of the features I like.
1.)  It uses drivers to import and export documents from other popular sources.
(Appleworks Classic, Mousewrite, a few others)  This makes for easy expansion
as the entire program does not need to be rewritten to add new import/export
features.  (Expandability)
2.)  When you start it has no fonts loaded.  This allows you to load only fonts
which you want to use, thus saving memory.

        A feature I did not like.
1.)  Because of the graphic tools the entire width of the text field does not
fit on the screen at any one time.  (GWIII does have a feature to scale, but
this decreases readability.)  So, you must scroll horizontally through the
document as well as vertically.

        I haven't been able to give the program a thorough shakedown, but I
am impressed so far.  Whether or not it will be worth the wait remains to be
seen.
                              Eric

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