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From: west@turing.toronto.edu (Tom West)
Subject: Re: Will 7.x remove 32k limit in TextEdit?, or: Where oh where has my CoreEdit gone?
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.114930.13616@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
References: <21346@well.sf.ca.us> <1990Oct25.171219.11636@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 1 Nov 90 16:49:31 GMT
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In article <1990Oct25.171219.11636@cbnewsk.att.com> ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath) writes:
>From article <21346@well.sf.ca.us>, by oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster):
>> Apple lived up to its early promise, and I've got a copy of Core Edit. Core
>> Edit implements paragraphs of styled text, is a mass of assembly language,
>> and is quite buggy...
>> 
>> One of the few comments in the source of Core Edit says:
>> ;; Papa Wigginton's genuine spaghetti code (now that's Italian)
>
>As a followup: I went out and picked up DataPak's "Word Solutions" engine.
>At $300 it may sound pricey, but there are no royalties for incorporation
>in products, so the added functionality it added and the time it saved m
> was worth it.  I did spend about three days wrapping it up as a CEditText
>workalike so that I could use it with Think C 4.0 and the TCL (most of that
>trying to figure out how to connect with scrollpanes correctly).
>
>It's fast, it works, and I don't have to think about it any more.  I don't
>know better praise than that for a toolbox extension.

  I also have used DataPak's software.  It works and they have fantastic
customer support.  I have never been treated as well as I have by them.  They
faxed *good* technical doc when I asked for it, took the order quickly,
delivered it quickly, phoned (to Canada!) to make sure I had received it, 
phoned an acknowledgement of the receipt of the registration card!!  They
sent a free update entirely unexpectedly and phoned once more a month or two
later to ask if I had any problems and whether I was interested in the
extension packages.

  I have only the highest praise for their product and the company.  I only
hope they start making other packages that I can use.


							Tom West

Disclaimer: I'm only a satisfied customer who is amazed at being 
	    treated well by companies that one is trying to buy from.