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From: ral@pyuxqq.UUCP (R A Levenberg)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.micro,net.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted on hard/software
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Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 00:53:12 EST
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Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ
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Keywords: Borland PC-Write Maxell QuickBASIC Toolbox Lightning
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I'm a registered user of PC-Write, a shareware editor/word processor
available from Quicksoft (they usually advertise in BYTE).  As a screen
editor, it's very convenient, but it's currently limited to 64K byte
files (if that's a problem!).  They are planning an upgrade to resolve
this.  Some PC-Write human interfaces leave something to be desired
(HELP is pretty miserable, and a separate program must be invoked
to print what you've just edited).  Changing colors or printer specs
requires quite a bit of numeric dabbling, but once done you'll find
it to be an excellent editor.  If you like to sprinkle tabs in your
text, you'll find PC-Write expands tab characters to blanks when you
enter them, so C programmers beware.

It's great for editing batch files and simple text.  If you have numbered
sections, you have to manually modify the section numbers, unlike
some other WPs that have number registers that will do this for you.
I guess the philosophy is WYSIWYG!

It's certainly worth the $75 registration fee, and copies can be freely
made (even the manual is on the distribution disk).  Only your conscience
requires you to pay for using the package.

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