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From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Beware Perfect Writer Version 2
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 12:21:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 15 12:21:43 1985
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As sort of a followup to this original message. The old version (1.0)
of Perfect Writer (as sold by Perfect Software Inc I believe) which
was a mince equivalent had an additional problem that is/was quite
annoying. It could not handle files > 64K. Mince goes a little 
strange (ever been -1722% into a file) but can edit and save a file
>64K, perfect writer goes really strange and simply exits into the
pw menu and locks up the keyboard. Not nice at all. The people at 
Mark of the Unicorn do seem to still be supporting Mince if only 
for us diehard Emacs hackers who refuse to type ^w to go up a 
line. They really push FinalWord, which for me is not quite as useful.
After all, when I am editing a source file What do I need a formatter
for?

--Chuck

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