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From: gerard@tscs.UUCP (Stephen M. Gerard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Re: DOS 3.3 upgrade (IBM bashing)
Message-ID: <135@tscs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 02:35:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: tscs.135
Posted: Thu Aug  6 02:35:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 09:50:47 EDT
References: <1077@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> <3320041@hpsrlc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: gerard@tscs.UUCP (system administrator)
Organization: Total Support Computer Systems, Tampa, Florida
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In article <3320041@hpsrlc.HP.COM> darrylo@hpsrlc.UUCP writes:
>In comp.sys.ibm.pc, madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost) writes:
>> In article <2090@sphinx.uchicago.edu> pre1@sphinx.UUCP (Grant Prellwitz) writes:
>> Now, let's talk about IBM software.  Have you ever seen a really good
>> software package made by IBM?  I have not.  Ever.  Reviewers often
>
>     Actually, a little-known program called "Personal Editor II"
>is one of the best low-cost editors I've seen.  It's VERY fast, has a
>reconfigurable keyboard (even letters), has a simple macro language,
>can edit multiple files, can handle files larger than memory, etc.,
>etc..  I don't think they sell it any more, however. :-(

Actually, IBM did not write the Personal Editor, a person by the name of Jim
Wyllie did.  IBM only distributed it in their Personally Developed Software
library.  So the quest continues is search of a good program written by IBM :-).

PE2 has one very nice feature, the ability to copy/move a block of text from
any starting to ending column with any number of lines and maintain perfect
columnization of that text.  I wish vi could do this.

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