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In article <1697@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:

>I need a word processor and editor (mostly the latter) that DOESN'T DELETE
>in the resource fork of the document. It can add it's own resources allright,
>but what's there has to be there when I save and quit, or else I'm out of the
>game...
>
>The question: Since NISUS seems to be such a good buy, how does it handle the
>resource fork ? I'd really like to know !

   Unfortunately it does just that - deletes the entire resource fork
   of an existing (say McSink) TEXT file - and gives you no _preselectable_
   automatic option to resave it as a TEXT document without affecting its
   already existing resource fork or changing the original creator field
   to one of its own.  This is, clearly, a mistake of such vast proportions
   that it renders Nisus <<effectively>> unusable in a multi-programming-
   tool environment.  Mind you, I'm talking about version 1.0.  I keep
   hearing that in spite of the newly released 2.0 which is, accordingly
   to many, "an improvement", a (Paragon) programmer already was mentioning
   an upcoming 3.0 release.  My, my.  Tell you something, Paragon.  Call
   me when you decided if Nisus is to be a MS-Word-class word processor
   or a super-duper programming editor with word processing capabilities.
   I could use the latter provided that you you fixed some of the stupid
   deficiencies that are present in the 1.0 ("jump to beg/ end of doc,
   next/previous paragraph | sentence | word executed in the form of
   interpreted macros & not listening to command/ shift/ option arrow
   keys". Real sloooow; I could laugh a night away if I wasn't so
   pissed off with the result.  Other examples of such non-quite-well-
   designed features too  numerous to mention but available on request)

   That is, call me if you're reading this, which I doubt in the first
   place.... so much for the (implied) product support where it really
   counts.... which should be right here, on usenet, and _not_ primarily
   available only by telephone within the geographics limits of US of A.
   Geography and user-support don't mix!

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