From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: Perfect Writer Article-I.D.: ucb.1323 Posted: Thu Jun 10 23:27:31 1982 Received: Fri Jun 11 06:58:11 1982 >From Hess.Unicorn@Mit-Multics Thu Jun 10 23:27:20 1982 For those of you who want reassurance about Perfect Writer, here's another useful piece of information: Perfect Writer is substantially the same as Mark of the Unicorn's Mince and Scribble package. Therefore, if you know someone who swears up and down that Mince and Scribble are good Emacs and Scribe clones, then you can rest assured that so is Perfect Writer. It has had a menu system put on front of it, has (as Barry said) USER-redefinable (rather than programmer-redefinable) key bindings, and in my opinion, the year of work that was put into Perfect Writer after their (Perfect Software) initial purchase of Mince and Scribble has been well-spent in producing a VERY good word-processing-style manual, and that (even more than the technical improvements) makes it a winner! However, if you are a hacker type, you will probably still want to buy Mince and Scribble ($275) instead, because you get the C source code to play with! Alas, the manual is written more for the technical type than the secretary. Perhaps Unicorn's FinalWord product will turn out to fill the business word processing category, but there have been no reviews on it to date. As I understand it, the $389 price includes only Perfect Writer, and Perfect Speller is extra? The ads aren't clear on that point, and we (Mark of the Unicorn) have only a version 1.01 Perfect Writer to hack with. Since the price just went up from $289, perhaps they are including "spell mode" and Perfect Speller in with it now? Anybody have a recently purchased model? Brian