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- Path: unicorn.it.wsu.edu!i9566249
- From: i9566249@unicorn.it.wsu.edu (Brian Mcewen)
- Subject: Re: FinalWriter for Windows 95
- Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (News)
- Message-ID: <Dnrqwt.Ex0@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 00:34:05 GMT
- References: <4hbk06$cne@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <woody-0403960709310001@woody.softwood.com>
- Organization: Washington State University
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- Woody Williams (woody@softwood.com) wrote:
-
- <deletia>
- : you suddenly discover have been put in a Win95 version. Look, for your
- : information, there is a ton of libraries, utilitites, and other software
- : already developed for Windows that developers can purchase and include in
- : their programs for a small upfront fee.
-
- : On the Amiga, we have included everything we could get our hands on to put
- : into Final Writer. The problem is, there just isn't as much software
- : available, and we don't realize enough sales to justify hiring ten
- : programmers. For the Win95 version, all we had to do was look in
- : "Programmers Paradise" magazine and find all of the utilities we needed!
- : It would be nice if we could do this on the Amiga. If we could, I assure
- : you everything would be in the Amiga version.
- <deletia>
-
- It's a good thing to have your presence on the net, 'cos the
- number of us who do not have inside info on running a SW company, is
- probably about equal to, oh, say the # of us who do not RUN SW companies
- <grin>. All we the consumer have to go on, is what gets put out the door.
- And maybe a teaspoonfull of fact in the ocean of hype which is advertising.
-
- I'm glad that the features most requested by the dedicated users
- who the newgroups are under consideration/development. I won't care if
- they don't appear until December, as long as they make it out eventually.
-
- And I'll bet he will greatly appreciate an upgrade notice. As will
- we all...
-
- (-to comment on an older problem-)
- BTW, the "missing" built-in buttons, etc ( superscript, subscript, whatever)
- appeared on a second installation of FW4. Must have highlighted a couple
- extra things, when I copied my FW3 misc stuff, to the FW4 directory...
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- |"Information is pretty thin stuff, Brian McEwen |
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- | -Clarence Day i9566249@wsunix.wsu.edu |
- | http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~i9566249/ |
- | * Remember, what PCs are doing today the Amiga was doing in 1985* |
- | * (except for a few things, and the PC's will do those soon..) * |
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