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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
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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

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