From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: Perfect Writer Article-I.D.: ucb.1348 Posted: Mon Jun 14 00:27:23 1982 Received: Tue Jun 15 00:50:55 1982 >From awd@Utexas-11 Mon Jun 14 00:26:46 1982 As BNH and PGA noted, PW is Mince and Scirbbel warmed over. However, Source code is not avaailable for any part of PW or PS at all. What this means ia that in some cases, which are ever decreasing, PW may prove to be inadaquate. eg: 1. Apples without an 80 column board can actually be supported, however it is not reccommended since most screens of text are trimmed for a 79 column terminal. This means that the menu system is difficult if not impossible to use on an apple with 40 columns, and the configuration process is hard. 2. Without the source to Crayon, The MotU printer driver, new printer drivers are impossible to add. This is not all bad: PW and Crayon will indeed support any printer in monospaced modes of operation. Only those printers which can proportional space and are not currently supported lose. 3. The PW editor is roughly 4K bigger than Mince, and all the config programs are significantly more verbose... This means that PW MUST HAVE a genuine 56K to run in. Many Morrow systems have a CP/M which proclaims 56K, but indeed has less. 4. In rebuttal to the InfoWorld article - PW is now being shipped with inch and a half binders instead of one-inch ones. We may also include Hardcopy of the lessons, but did not do so for two reasons: a. We felt that the lessons are meant to be learned off disk and having hardcopy would encourage thair use in an improper manner. b. The lessons are constantly being revised. Sigh. We would have spent as much typesetting the lessons as the rest of the wntire manual. this policy on the lessons may change in the future... 5. Obviously, all of PW is in BDS C. All of the other products in the Perfect (frob) line are also in C, and we are working on ports to other machines and operating systems which support C. Expect to see at least a few ??nix versions of PW and the other programs in the PSI stable by years' end -Barry A. Dobyns-------