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From: todd@islenet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Summary of MSDOS text editors
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Date: Fri, 20-Apr-84 15:43:08 EST
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Not to belabor the point, but the editor that comes with Turbo
Pascal is not just for editing Turbo Pascal source code.  The
editor simply manipulates standard sequential text files.  I
use it to create and edit source code for Turbo Pascal, MRI
Modula-2, and Microsoft/Lattice C.  And it would work just as
well with any other language that requires its source to be
stored as sequential text files.

Its only real limitations are:
	-no windows
	-60+K bytes max file size

Its strengths are:
	-follows Wordstar style commands
	 if you know how to use Wordstar, you know how to use
	 the Turbo Pascal editor right away
	-supports autoindenting for block structured languages
	-program is small and takes up very little disk space (33K)
	-relatively fast
	-keys can be redefined
	-relatively cheap (still $49.95 with T-Pascal compiler)


Todd Ogasawara -- University of Hawaii -- Dept. of Psychology
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