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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Wish List
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- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.0bz3@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 21:03:11 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
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- An earlier message discussed the availability of XLent's word processor. I
- never used their word processor, but XLent's database application,
- MegaFiler was quite nice for a low end product. In many ways it was much
- better than SynFile+ - AND MegaFiler would run under SpartaDOS, which also
- meant it could run from a hard drive.
-
- As for word processors I used three: AtariWriter Plus (AW+), TextPro Plus
- (TP+), and PaperClip 3.0 (PC). The best and the worst was PC. The built-in
- DOS was a royal pain in the behind, but it was the most powerful of the
- three. I did figure out a way to make it run like streaked lightning tho'.
-
- I DiskCom'ed the program and dictionary disks and kept the files on my hard
- drive which ran under SpartaDOS X. I also had a one meg MIO with several
- standard floppy size ramdrives. I wrote a SDX batch file which
- 1. ran a utility to "format" my MIO ramdrives as AtariDOS directory
- structure drives.
- 2. "Unpacked" my PC disks from the hard drive into the MIO ramdrives.
- 3. ran a utility to renumber the system drives with the "PC" drives as 1&2.
- 4. rebooted the system.
-
- PaperClip loaded almost instantaneously from the MIO ramdrive. I then
- requested to look up a word in the spellchecker. Because my 130XE had 320K
- of RAM, the entire dictionary was then loaded at high speed from the MIO
- into the extra memory on the 130XE. I then manually popped up the MIO drive
- configuration menu and put my real floppy drive as 2.
-
- The system performed a reset as I returned to PaperClip, but the spelling
- dictionary was already loaded into the 130XE's ram.
-
- The above process took a total of 20-30 seconds and the result was a very
- high speed word processor with NO disk shuffling.
-
- -- Via DLG Pro v0.995
-
- jim_johnson@abcd.houghton.mi.us
- from Calumet, Michigan, USA -the world's former copper mining capital,
- located on Lake Superior and home to America's newest National Park,
- ** The Keweenaw National Historic Park **
-