Re: Power Users and TTG?

[Harmon F Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

I don't think I'm missing the point -- I already do use windoz apps like
Corel Draw and Ventura. But if TTG produces a true win95 app, it
won't run on my new PowerPC computer, because win95 itself won't
be able to run on it, as things now stand. And it also won't be
able to run under win 3.1. And, as the users here seem to
steadfastly report, thus far TTG hasn't been able to produce a
decent windoze version of XY.
  But you are right -- if TTG produces a magnum opus that runs
only on win95, I'll pass. It's unlikely that it will actually
improve my writing speed much over XY4. And I'm a lot more prone
to buying a copy of Notabene than XYWin. And since it is now
unlikely that TTG will produce any sort of
XY5 for DOS, I guess I've bought my last version of XY.
Hopefully, TTG will fix the bugs in XY4, so that we can have a
trouble free version of that, but after seeing what they just did
to the users of XY3, I'm not too sure of that happening either.
  The most serious problem for me with XY4 is that since it's
not a native
OS/2 app, when I try to use it with Pen for OS/2, I can't
directly enter the graphics I'm sketching into the document I'm
working on (but that is also true of WinPen and XY, so don't
fault OS/2, eh?) and I'm assuming that the same thing will be
true when I start using voice dictation to enter text. So what
I'll have to do is use a "inferior 32-bit" word processor of some
sort, like Describe or ClearLook or Boxer or AmiPro as a frontend
of sorts for XY to enter the actual text and graphics into first,
then just use XY for editing and formatting.
  Oh well! But, as I've said before, computers are changing so
rapidly that who knows what we'll be using 5 years hence? But I'm
fairly sure now that it won't be XyWrite.

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