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- 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?
- >
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- >Alexander S. Hinds ahinds@best.com
- >
- >
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- 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
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