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From: ral@pyuxqq.UUCP (R A Levenberg)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Questions about Thinktank
Message-ID: <785@pyuxqq.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 03:03:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 12 03:03:23 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Dec-85 07:49:46 EST
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I've used ThinkTank on many occasions and found I liked
organizing thoughts in outline format.  The user interface is,
shall I say, fair at best.  It uses a sort of 1-2-3 style of menu,
near the bottom of the screen, but unlike 1-2-3, typing the first
character of a a displayed command does not always work.
(It usually does, but sometimes only the cursor positioning technique
works.)  Despite this, and the failure to provide full control over
color (only foreground colors can be changed, not background, so this
feature is insufficient for my taste), it is a useful tool.  The outline
is not stored in ascii (i.e., printable) format, but you can use the
"port" command to output to a file in ascii format.  In fact, you
can send it in formatted style (with section numbering and indenting)
or in the so-called structured style.  The structure style can very
easily be translated to troff source text using, say, the -mm macros.
(Nothing more than a 1-line sed command is needed).  This is certainly
true about the headlines, but I'm not sure about the text that you
can add to a headline in paragraph form (called a document in ThinkTank
parlance.)

ThinkTank is copy-protected.  You must insert a key disk in drive A
whenever you bring it up (a real pain in the *%$$@ and I hope LVT
corrects this situation).


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