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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: FW 5
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 22:44:00 GMT
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- Jason Compton (jcompton@flood.xnet.com) wrote:
- :
- : I think the real problem here is that Softwood is GIVING to Windows users
- : what Amiga users have been paying for. Actually, they've been paying for
- : it, hoping for more import/export filters, but not getting them. Now
- : they're giftware to anyone who's made a Windows95 purchase.
- :
- Woody has already posted a message regarding this situation. If I read it
- properly, the code was not produced in-house or at SoftWood's expense.
- This would remove the sting of "we've been paying so they could benefit".
- Additionally, FW5, claimed to be due in April, will supposedly have more
- import/export filters, plus Tables and other long-awaited features, that
- you say you have been waiting for. Thus your only complaint is that some
- of them are getting a "Cover Disk" version of a product we don't yet
- have. Yes, well, ahhh, ... OK, that's hard to smile about.
-
- Make sure all your best buddies who have Win'95 get ahold of this
- package, though. Bite the bullet and pass the word. If you both have
- copies of Final Writer you should be able to share native mode - or at
- least RTF mode - files with each other. The more who have it, the more
- you can share with. The need for more import/export filters was never
- seriously powered by the need for bragging rights but over the need to
- share files between systems.
- DELIVERED!
-