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Re: Technical Word Processing

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From: Charles C. Allen
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 1990 00:59
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> I don't get it.  I've played with the FullWrite Demo a bit, and I
> can't figure out how it is finding such devotees.  The problem: it's
> incomprehensibly, fantastically SLOW (on my IIcx with 8 Meg.).  The other
> day I tried a search/replace on a document with less than 10 pages and it
> took something like 15 minutes!!!

I use FW 1.1 on a II (1500K MF partition) and on a IIci (1124K MF
partition).  On the IIci, I just took a 15 page document and replaced
all double spaces with single spaces.  It took 13 seconds.

Charles Allen			Internet: cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu
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West Lafayette, IN  47907
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From: cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen)
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Subject: Re: Technical Word Processing
Summary: seems fast to me...
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Date: 4 Jun 90 00:59:35 GMT
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