Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!crackers!m2c!applix!jim From: jim@applix.com (Jim Morton [ext 237]) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Asterix - product info wanted Keywords: asterix wysiwyg Message-ID: <1180@applix.com> Date: 11 Apr 91 13:42:08 GMT References: Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA Lines: 19 stephenf@suite.sw.oz.au (Stephen Frede) writes: > I went to a demo of a product called Asterix, which has a very powerful > (they claim) macro language called ELF (unfortunate name, given SVr4), > which may do most of the things that we want. argggghh! Yes, it is unfortunate that the acronym ELF is used both for SVR4 object code and our macro language. When we came up with the name ELF, the System V object code was still called COFF! > Has anybody used this product? Could you summarise the advantages, > disadvantages you have found with it, or just mail me so I can ask some > specific questions. I won't get into commercial marketing talk here, but feel free to email us directly at: asterixinfo@applix.com and/or download the demo at uunet.uu.net:/applix/asterixdemo.tar.Z -- Jim Morton, Applix Inc., Westboro, MA ...uunet!applix!jim jim@applix.com