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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!mtu.edu!mtus5!jjmcwill
- Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
- Date: Monday, 21 Dec 1992 11:31:42 EST
- From: Jeff McWilliams <JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92356.113142JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Wish List (was: comp.sys.atari.8bit.archive)
- References: <92355.113649JJMCWILL@MTUS5.BITNET>
- <1992Dec19.072022.23342@cs.tu-berlin.de> <1h4l9uINN10f@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- Yes, at one time way back when I had taken a look at LetterPerfect that
- somebody in my user group had owned. I had the Omniview 256, so for the
- heck of it I modified a backup of his disk to use its 80 column driver.
- With the extra RAM in the computer, I could set up a 90K ramdisk as
- D2: before booting up LP, copy the Spellperfect disk to it with a
- sector copy program, then do a cold boot to get into LP, do the keyboard
- command to reactivate D2:, and presto! Instant Spell Checking! Spell
- Perfect was LOTS better than the spell checker for either turboword OR
- Paperclip in my opinion. The strange disk layout was the killer for me,
- I needed to copy files to/from DOS disks, and LP couldn't do that
- without dealing with some other odd programs. I agree, the things you
- mentioned would make the program awesome. I THINK the LJK guy is still
- around, last time I talked to Ben about it was a couple weeks ago.
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- Jeff McWilliams
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