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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Rand editor for DOS & OS/2
Message-ID: <1991May7.100405.24481@uwasa.fi>
Date: 7 May 91 10:04:05 GMT
References: <1995.w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1995.w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> lmoc@elec-eng.leeds.ac.uk (Mike O'Carroll) writes:
>I have uploaded a new revision of my port of the "Rand" editor" e2 to
>DOS / OS-2.  ( PD1:<MSDOS.EDITOR>E2-V321.ZIP> )
>
>For those not familiar with this editor, here is a brief description.
>
>e2 is a multiple text window editor.  It can handle up to 9 files
>simultaneously and allows the screen to be split horizontally or
>vertically (or both).  It runs under both Dos and OS/2.
:

I took a look at e2 to make one of my review-like descriptions.  I'm
in no doubt that this may be a useful utility for the initiated. 
But for a newcomer the only word I can come up with is cryptic.  My
suggestion: This product needs a newcomer's primer.  The exhoration
to read the full documentation and experiment is insufficient. 
(Recall my ten minute rule.  An experienced newcomer to a program
must not be stuck after the first ten minutes.)

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Prof. Timo Salmi
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