Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!sentinel From: sentinel@killer.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: GEOS 128 Problems? Message-ID: <1674@killer.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 20:48:34 EDT Article-I.D.: killer.1674 Posted: Tue Sep 29 20:48:34 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Oct-87 05:35:19 EDT References: <386@rocksanne.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: A Un*x Box in Texas Lines: 52 In article <386@rocksanne.UUCP>, bollman@rocksanne.UUCP (James Bollman) writes: > I'm looking for a GEOS expert or someone from the company, > to answer a few questions. I just got my new GEOS 128 package last Friday > and spent the weekend playing. I was first pleased with the package, > then displeased with what was missing. > > 1)How do I get text in from outside the system? I have been using the > PocketWriter128 and tried both standard PW files as well as ASCII. > > 2)No Find and Replace, super or subscript, or a path to my printers > Near Letter Quality font. The last is especially missed since none of > the 27 fonts supplied is as good. Does GEOS or some other company have > a better editor that will run in GEOS? Writer's Workshop from BSW has both of these things included. However, Writer's Workshop is only available for GEOS 64 and thus will only work in 40 column mode on the 128. That is, until the 128 version of it comes out. Basically, Writer's Workshop consists of four programs: GeoWrite 2.0, Text Grabber (for importing text), GeoMerge (for doing form letters), and GeoLaser (for driving an Apple LaserWriter). GeoWrite 2.0 is basically an extended version of GeoWrite with all of the features you mentioned above. Text Grabber handles four or five formats of word processor files... I don't think Pocket Writer is among them, but I know that regular ASCII is supported. Alternately, the book "How To Get The Most Out Of GEOS" from Midnite Press has some conversion programs to get text from C-64 word processors to GEOS... and Pocket Writer IS one of the ones supported. I don't know how well they work, because I've never tried them myself. > 3)GEOSpaint seems to have a problem recording button clicks and is very > hard to draw with in several modes. Am I missing something? Nope. I've noticed the same thing. The main problem I have run into is that the pointer moves with a pixel granularity of two instead of one. This makes it hard for me to do some things, because I like to get things correct right down to the pixel level. Also, I've noticed that sometimes when you close a text region it leaves the box (the box around the text) there AS PART OF THE FILE. I have noticed that these problem seem to much less apparent on the 40 column screen... so if can't seem to get something done in 80 columns, I switch to 40 where I usually don't have any problems. Of course, this is no excuse for the problem, but at least it may help you get something done. > Any thoughts or fixes to any of the above? > > Jim... -- Rob Tillotson ...ihnp4!killer!sentinel 3922-1 Newport Ave. -or- Fort Wayne, IN 46805 ...rutgers!unirot!sentinel (219) 483-2722 (top one preferred)