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From: paul@fcstools.UUCP (Paul Perkins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: The apple public-domain editor
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 21:23:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 21:23:37 1985
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I've used the Oct-84, Jan-85, and "1.0" (MDS) versions of Edit on a 512K mac.
Jan-85 and 1.0 are said to be "the same"; they are the same size, anyway.
The Jan-85/1.0 versions still can't figure out how to update the screen
correctly in some situations, and still bomb rather often, but both seem
less frequent than in the older version.  I'm not sure if the "spins disk
but doesn't really save" bug and the "scrambles file contents" bug still
exist in the newer Edit, but both happened (tho rarely) in the old version.

Besides the bugs, Edit seems very slow.  How can it take longer to save
a file from Edit than to compile it (Megamax C)?  Alas, there doesn't yet
seem to be anything else for the Mac that is at all suitable for program
editing.

Paul Perkins

This is all just my opinion, of course.

Oh yeah, I got the Jan-85 version off Compuserve, if anyone was wondering.