Re: Appleworks 4.0 arrives - compatibility with 3.0

[uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)]

What problems are you referring to?  The only one I'm aware of is that
it doesn't like having interrupts in the background (which does
indicate that whoever wrote the interrupt-handling code for AW4 wasn't
particularly clever about it).

AppleWorks 4.0 has given me no problems worth mentioning other than
that (although it won't let me configure the spell checker's directory
for some reason).  But I'm also using the last beta version, so it
might have been fixed in the release version.

AW4's word processor files are 100% compatible with AW3.  I don't know
about the rest of the files.  It does use some of the special fields
that Beagle Bros. used (with AW Companion) to keep track of the cursor
location on saving and stuff like that.

If you have Twilight II (or another backgrounding program), I'd wait
until after Quality fixes this incompatibility before buying or
upgrading to AW4 -- UNLESS you don't use macros.

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