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In article <768@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
|In article <75917@sun.uucp| chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
||My primary problem with FWP is speed. I've gotten to the point where I
|
|Speed is *very* important, but it does not prohibit the use of a full
|WYSIWYG display.  Look at WriteNow for a good example of a fast program
|that supports true WYSIWYG all the time.  It doesn't need a "quick and
|dirty, enter the text but don't format it" mode, because it was
|programmed correctly.  It also doesn't need a 1100K partition under

Then again...

A few days ago, a colleauge stopped by to upload some text to his UNIX(R)
box.  His documentation file was in WriteNow, and I happened to have a
conversion program in my Jasmine PD stuff on the HD.  So, I said, let's try
to convert this to text to upload.

A ~80K Writenow file took ~20 MINUTES to convert to raw text (on a Plus)!

Evidently, not all is quite lightning-fast with WriteNow.
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Rich Straka     att!ihlpf!straka

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