Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!feg From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Word Perfect: A rich feature and its problems Message-ID: <10660@clyde.ATT.COM> Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 10:34:35 EDT Article-I.D.: clyde.10660 Posted: Mon Jun 29 10:34:35 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 1-Jul-87 01:44:41 EDT References: <4083@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ Lines: 13 Summary: XyWrite III + also has this feature In article <4083@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mic@lapis.berkeley.edu (Michel Bruneau) writes: > In my search for a good word processor, a friend showed me Word Perfect. > So, while I was looking a bit at word perfect I was happy to see they provided > for a command that allows to send directly special commands to any printer. > That is a very important feature for anybody who wants to get as much out > of his printer, but to my surprise there seemed to be difficulty to find > those caracters back. The search command can find the [Cmd] part but > cannot make the difference between the [Cmd <27>%Z] and [Cmd <27>%3]. XyWrite III Plus also allows embedded printer commands and has no trouble with search and replace of those commands. Forrest Gehrke