gordon@uw-june (John Whitmore) (08/29/86)
Touted as a replacement for MacWrite, they guarantee you'll
like their program or your money back (within fifteen days).
They also offer a special discount price if you send in your MacWrite
disk, "You can have it back if you don't agree WordHandler is better".
So, I sent in my $30. Getting the disk, I tried WordHandler, found
it was IMMENSE (179k), balky, and entirely bletcherous to use.
So, I sent it back and asked for my MacWrite disk back.
Reply from ALS: "We don't refund the special discount deal", and if
I want my original MacWrite disk back, "Send $25 for shipping and
handling". If it costs them that much for shipping and handling one
floppy, then I bought the WordHandler software and manual for $4.95
and they charged $29.95 only because they had to "ship and handle" it.
I don't blame them; you couldn't hire me to touch their program for
such a paltry sum. It doesn't paste-in graphics like MacWrite, otherwise
has one or two minor improvements, copies ALL the bad features, and
makes a lot of the normal-use operations more awkward.
My comment on ALS software: see Fig. 1
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John Whitmore, uw-beaver!uw-june!phastvax!whit, whit@uwaphast.bitnet