Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site intelca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!intelca!cem From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Beware Perfect Writer Version 2 Message-ID: <478@intelca.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 12:21:43 EST Article-I.D.: intelca.478 Posted: Tue Jan 15 12:21:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 02:00:22 EST References: <7265@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. Lines: 20 As sort of a followup to this original message. The old version (1.0) of Perfect Writer (as sold by Perfect Software Inc I believe) which was a mince equivalent had an additional problem that is/was quite annoying. It could not handle files > 64K. Mince goes a little strange (ever been -1722% into a file) but can edit and save a file >64K, perfect writer goes really strange and simply exits into the pw menu and locks up the keyboard. Not nice at all. The people at Mark of the Unicorn do seem to still be supporting Mince if only for us diehard Emacs hackers who refuse to type ^w to go up a line. They really push FinalWord, which for me is not quite as useful. After all, when I am editing a source file What do I need a formatter for? --Chuck -- - - - D I S C L A I M E R - - - {ihnp4,fortune}!dual\ All opinions expressed herein are my {qantel,idi}-> !intelca!cem own and not those of my employer, my {ucbvax,hao}!hplabs/ friends, or my avocado plant. :-}