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From: cavrak@uvm-gen.UUCP (Steve Cavrak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: query: SCRIBE for PC
Message-ID: <506@uvm-gen.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 07:57:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  4 07:57:40 1987
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Organization: EMBA Computer Facility, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington.
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in article <532@cod.UUCP>, dukelow@cod.UUCP (Robert A. Dukelow) says:
> Keywords: SCRIBE
> 
> Does anyone know of a full SCRIBE implementation for the IBM PC. 
> FinalWord II which seems to be a subset of SCRIBE and would also
> be interested in comments on that product.
> 

Several of us here have used Final Word (I and) II and like it -- it does
what we want and can be configured to look like emacs (mince) and is close
enough to SCRIBE to let us move back and forth between VAX/VMS and the
PC-6300.  The version we have (over a year old) supports Adobe, Apple
Laswriter HP Laserjet, Xerox 2700, and Compu- graphics.  Documentation is
good. And if you don't like the way they did something, you can reprogram it
using a decent macro language.

But the real reason I'm posting this is a comment on p87 of the March 1987
"PC World" in the Product Outlook column under the heading "Turbo Writing."
"Borland International is offering an appealing ... 'Sprint: Thw Word
Processor'.  ... The firm has put a pop-up menu face on 'Final Word II' and
given it company on the form of a capable DOS shell, PostScript support,
file headers, a print formatter, and abundant macro source code." ...

Hmmm.  Editorial Confusion?  Cash Infusion?  I don't know.  
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