Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!kamath From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: DOS/ProDOS Message-ID: <9644@reed.UUCP> Date: 21 Jun 88 22:21:06 GMT References:<8806200344.aa10165@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 35 In article <8806200344.aa10165@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes: >The point is I am NOT anti-ProDOS. Everything I've seen indicates it >is a MUCH more sensible system for developing applications, but a lot >of this "ProDOS is the ONLY way to go" chatter seems to be coming from >people who arrived (and bought their software) after 1985. Here here! Well said. >Howcome there are so many ProDOS word processors and not one decent >ProDOS text editor (WYSIWYGs make TERRIBLE text editors and besides >they hog core with lots of "features" that a word processor needs but >a text editor doesn't)? There's at least *one* I know of. It's called AppleWriter. Of course, it was originally developed under DOS 3.3 -- a very custom 3.3 though. Actually, from my years on UN*X with VI and JOVE, I'm convinced that there really aren't any *full featured* text-editors for the // out there, with the exception of AMACS, but I haven't seen that yet. And, unfortunately, I just don't have the $195 (I think) for it, even if it *did* work well. >ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall >BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. >UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut Murph, you really ought to sign your name, so I don't have to include your whole .sig. Sometimes it's enough for Pnews to barf. (Hence this note. . .) Sean Kamath -- UUCP: {decvax allegra ucbcad ucbvax hplabs ihnp4}!tektronix!reed!kamath CSNET: reed!kamath@Tektronix.CSNET || BITNET: reed!kamath@PSUVAX1.BITNET ARPA: reed!kamath@PSUVAX1.CS.PSU.EDU US Snail: 3934 SE Boise, Portland, OR 97202-3126 (I hate 4 line .sigs!)