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From: fzsitvay@techbook.com (Frank Zsitvay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: T2k software summary
Message-ID: <1990Sep20.213451.12486@techbook.com>
Date: 20 Sep 90 21:34:51 GMT
References: <139@slovax.WA.COM>
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix
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In article <139@slovax.WA.COM> larry1@slovax.WA.COM (larry1) writes:
>
>WORD PROCESSING
>
>Word Perfect 4.2 works nicely on the 2000 and is obviously not
>a shortcut when it comes to quality. I have not yet found a good
>down and dirty editor (besides EDLIN) to use but I am in the process 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>of porting stevie (vi clone) to the 2000. If anyone knows if this has 
>already been done let me know, PLEASE!!!
>
   a very good "down and dirty" editor is eric meyer's VDE.   it's a
sort-of wordstar emulator but has it's own host of features that, in
my opinion, makes it much better than wordstar.   i think he's up
to version 1.54 in the ibm world.   it runs on ibm clones and also
can run on generic msdos machines that support ansi.


>COMMUNICATIONS
>
>This was the most important area to me and I have been looking for
>quite a while for a solution. I started by discovering the FOSSIL
>(F ido O pus S eadog S tandard I nterface L ayer) driver for the
>2000 was available and thought that would solve my problems. The
>FOSSIL driver replaces BIOS int 14h functions with standardized
>routines for com I/O and is available for a variety of not-so-
>compatible-machines.  I also had to find a comm package that 
>supported the FOSSIL spec.  I first tried GT PowerComm which apperars 
>to be an incredible product but due to the fact that I only have 256k 
                                                                  ^^^^
>memory, the program was to big for my machine. If I ever find a memory 
>upgrade kit I would like to try using it. I found that the generic

   you'll probably find that memory limit to be the biggest problem.
you might be able to check the older computer centers in your area, see
if they might have a 2000 memory sitting around.   you could also check
the classified ads in computer shopper.



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