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Re: Fullwrite Pro -- Six Months Later

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From: David Casseres
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1988 19:33
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In article <768@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:

>... the curse of bad programming.  It is incredible to me that anyone
>could write a word processor (with some admittedly nice features) that
>requires over a megabyte of memory.  And then still make it slow.

Not to mention buggy, and not to mention features that just don't do the
right things.

To be more specific, I can reliably make FWP go south by doing a simple
manipulation on an outline; the wristwatch comes up and spins forever.
And in stylesheets, you might think that selecting "italics" (for example)
would set an "italics" attribute on the affected text, wouldn't you?  But
guess what: it doesn't SET the ATTRIBUTE, it TOGGLES it.  Serious brain
damage here.

Not that I like the other word processors on the market a whole lot better.
I think they all suck.  I wish someone would do a decent one, but I don't
think it's about to happen.

David Casseres
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From: casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Fullwrite Pro -- Six Months Later
Message-ID: <188@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 4 Nov 88 19:33:38 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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