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- From: deviant@yang.earlham.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Word Processing software?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.141843.19400@yang.earlham.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 19:18:43 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.162012.19396@yang.earlham.edu> <1992Aug25.125923.8170@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
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- In article <1992Aug25.125923.8170@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug24.162012.19396@yang.earlham.edu> deviant@yang.earlham.edu writes:
- >>
- >>I need to get a better word processor for my IIGS!
- >> I currently have WordPerfect IIGS and have always felt really cheated.
- >
- > This seems a *little* hard on WordPerfect, since I have used it for
- > years with very few complaints. Aside from not doing "pretty" fonts,
- > it's the most USEFUL word processor I own.
-
- Ever since I've gotten WordPerfect it's bombed quite frequently. The
- printer drivers have messed me up quite a bit, and they no longer support
- the IIGS (or appearently the NeXT either, and I loved using WP on the
- NeXT). I'm not saying it isn't useful, just that it isn't even to the
- quality that WP 4.2 was on ibm's or MS word was for the XT compatibles.
- That's pretty bad if you look at how old those are. (Though I admit it
- does work better than the WP 2.0 did on the Mac)
-
- Stuff cut ----
-
- >> And it would be nice
- >>if the software wouldn't bomb on 24+ pages (I'm not talking about writing
- >>small s__t here).
- >
- > Then why in the world do you want to move to a SLOW font-based program?
- > It takes forever to print 1 page, let alone multiple pages!!
-
- I don't really care about the printing speed. I can't afford anything
- other than the ImageWriter II. Besides, I always leave the room and do
- something else during the time it takes to print.
- What I'm getting at is that I can't work on my thesis (over thirty pages
- now all together without the bloody thing freezing up (and it's not from
- lack of memory or inits/da's - 4 megs and I've had WP since before I was
- able to get any other DA's other than what comes on the system - that's it
- bombed ob System 5.0.4 and it's bombed on System 6.0)
-
- more stuff cut ---- snip.
-
- > --
- > __ __
- > (__) Grover Thomas InterNet: grover@emunix.emich.edu (__)
- --
-
- ala the Deviant@Yang.Earlham.Edu
- "You think you are ever so cleaver, however, you won't trap me there.
- Its turtles all the way down."
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