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From: tsouth@techbook.com (Todd South)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ACOS/GBBS (was:Re: MD-BASIC (was:Re: Apple ][ BBS Software))
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.040320.19472@techbook.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 04:03:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: techbook.1991Jun5.040320.19472
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In article <1991Jun3.180606.29748@unlinfo.unl.edu> greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.) writes:
>cchen@xcluud.sccsi.com (Conway Chen) writes:
>>unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>
>>>	But I know that ACOS doesn't have arrays (or at least didn't when
>>>I looked at it last summer to write a full screen editor in).. No arrays
>>>makes a hell of a lot of stuff a pain to write.
>
>>No, ACOS may not have arrays, but MACOS does.  Most people prefer to use 
>>MACOS over ACOS, as it does have arrays, both one and two dimensional.
>
>However if Lancey discovers you are running MACOS instead of ACOS, you can
>kiss all rights to upgrades and support away.
>
>Anyway, a full screen editor does exist, using ProTERM Special Emulation.
>It is an external USEfile.
>
>>Conway Chen
>>cchen@xcluud.sccsi.com
>>uunet!nuchat!xcluud!cchen
>
>--
>///   ____   \\\ "The major problem--one of the major problems, for there are
>| |/ /    \ \| |       several--one of the many major problems with governing
> \\_|\____/|_//            people is of whom you get to do it, or more to the
>greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu    point, who gets people to let them do it to them."

AH HAH! Now we see the added costs REQUIRED to edit ACOS files!!!!

So, how much did you have to pay for ProTERM to effectively edit
those ACOS segments?  Guess you got tired of looking at 40-column
FreeWriter screens. :)

Todd South

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