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id m0uW2a1-0007u1a; Tue, 18 Jun 96 09:20 MDT Sender: owner-executor Received: by ftp.ardi.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0uW2Me-0007u0C; Tue, 18 Jun 96 09:06 MDT Received: from mypc.indy.tds.net (roin1-a05.indy.tds.net [204.246.4.102]) by madison.tdsnet.com (8.6.12/CICNet) with SMTP id KAA00453; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:04:37 -0500 Mime-version: 1.0 Message-id: <199606181504.KAA00453@madison.tdsnet.com> Cc: executor@ardi.com Subject: Re: Executor/DOS Beta1 bug reports To: ahinds@ahinds.vip.best.com (Alexander Scott Hinds) X-mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 From: Gene Michael DeClark <gdeclar@indy.tds.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-sender: gdeclar@mail.tds.net Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:04:37 -0500 Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com Precedence: bulk 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? > >-- >--X >____________________________________________________________ >Alexander S. Hinds ahinds@best.com > > 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