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From: rstepno@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text editing on Macs
Message-ID: <2713@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 89 22:54:36 GMT
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In article <1989Oct23.081251.21268@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, tdrinkar@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu (Terrell Drinkard) writes:
> In article <2385@eagle.wesleyan.edu> rstepno@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>>I'm looking for a plain-text editor for newspaper reporters to use
>>on dual-floppy Mac SEs...
> Bob, have you considered getting an old version of MacWrite and
> have it save files in text only format?

We've considered MacWrite and MS Write, but as far as I know there's no way to
set them up to always save files as ASCII text for a computer-searchable
archive of published articles. (The alternative here seems to be a
file conversion program to translate any files accidentally saved in WRITE
or whatever format to ASCII. Any of those around?)

Two things I should have mentioned the last time:
1) We'd like to be able to have at least a couple of files open
   at a time (notes, outline, article, memo, letter to Mom...)
2) Our dual-floppy SEs are PhoneNETted together. The network software,
   printer drivers, InterMail and DISKTOP eat up a lot of system
   disspace.

Thanks for all the responses to my last posting. They'll really help
us make a decision! 

Bob                                                                B-)=
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