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Re: Executor/DOS Beta1 bug reports
At 07:36 PM 6/17/96 GMT, you wrote:
>And speaking of beta bugs, does anyone know if the excrutiatingly slow
>spell-checking under Word5.1 (under Linux, at least) has been fixed in
>the latest releases?
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>Alexander S. Hinds ahinds@best.com
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Well, I really don't know about any fixes to this on ARDI's part, but I do
know that Word 5.1's spell checking is excrutiatingly slow, even on a real
Mac from the era in which it was written (kind of like Word Perfect 6.1 for
Windows, which was written when a 33MHz 486SX was the average computer-- of
you've ever run it on a system like that, you know what I mean.) Anyway, it
depends on what you're running it on. On a Power Mac, 5.1's spell checker
runs adequately, but try it on a Mac II and you might as well go on a coffee
break. It's the same thing with Executor. If you're running it on a high
level Pentium, it's okay (but still a little frustrating.) On a 486 or 386,
you might as well import it to a different application (one native to your
system) and spell check it there, then import it back. This limitation in
speed is more Microsoft's fault than ARDI's.
--Gene
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