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