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From: james@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: WordPerfect vs MS-Word (XyWrite
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Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 16:08:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 16:08:00 1986
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Nf-From: inmet.UUCP!james    Mar 10 16:08:00 1986


I have recently started using XyWrite III.  It has several enhancements
over the old version.  One of them is the ability to work with
other RAM resident stuff.  They provide 3 modes of operation:

1- Xywrite runs the whole show  (blindingly fast and powerful, for example
				(you can use the CAPS LOCK key as a meta
				( like another ALT key
2- RAM resident keyboard enhancers user.  They give you a little keyborad
   driver that claims to make xywrite more well behave.  You lose a little
   of the total keyboard control, but it is still just as fast.

3- For RAM resident tools that are themselves ill-behaved, they have a
   DOS keyboard mode, where Xywrite uses the DOS interrupts for writing
   the screen just like all the old slow editors of yesteryear.  With
   this, use lose both speed and power. I have not tried this mode.

Seems like they have covered the gamut of possibilities, no doubt in 
reaction to their infamy as the hariest of the compatibility testers.

Don't ask me to compare it to MSWord, etc., I'm completely prejudiced
in XyWrite's favor.  (how many wordprocessors let you completely redefine
your keyboard?  I now have defined my kb to act like Brief (best editor
for programming), so my fingers don't get confused.
----james triplett