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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Some minuses to Txed Plus
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Date: 2 May 88 14:46:37 GMT
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In <1167@raybed2.UUCP>, lah@raybed2.UUCP (LANCE HOLMES) writes:
>After installing txed and experimenting I have found the following
>things to be a major difference and some thing you may want to consider
>before buying it.  The default Memory available is now reduced from
>35000 in txed v1.31 to 20000 in txed 2.0.  This means that if you
>have a file larger than 20000 Characters such as a file that you captured
>from the net and have to clean up so that you can uudecode or un shar it
>you can't load it into Txed.

No, TxED Plus will handle any file I have thrown at it, all the way up to
about .5 megs. I really wish you had tried a large file before saying this
on a public net. There are people who will read your message and will not
read the rebuttal. TxEd Plus is a fine product, and doesn't need
innacurate statements made about it.

>The second minus in Txed Plus is that it uses Arp.library.  This means
>that the file must be available to Txed in the Libs: directory
>if you try to perform some of the operations used in Txed such
>as cut and paste.  If you liked Txed v1.31 because it 
>was small and could be copied to ram: and run from there with
>out having workbench available then now your going to have 
>to copy Arp.library and any other libraries to ram: 
>and re-assign the Libs: directory to it.

I don't see this as a minus. Of course I use most of the ARP commands, and
because of that, arp.library is loaded in my machine at all times. The ARP
commands save memory and disk space, and the library takes up only a small
amount of memory. I think it is truly amazing that Charlie Heath managed to
keep the size of TxEd down to what it is, while adding so much to it in the
way of functionality through the ARexx interface. (I am answering this
posting using TxEd talking to an ARexx program, and it supplies
functionality I would expect from a dedicated program costing me an extra
50K at minimum)

>The Loading of txed from boot up routine which uses a demo version of Arexx
>has some problem.  You can load Txed,blitzdisk,ff,funkeys,and Arp.library
>with out any problem.  You also have the option to copy the latest Arp
>programs to your disk.  This copies a copy of Arc to you disk and a copy
>of Arpexe.arc.  You then have to know or guess that you need to De-Arc 
> [a description of the problems copying ARP stuff]

I agree that the instructions for installing the ARP stuff could have been
better, and that some assumptions were made regarding what may or may not
have been on your disk. (Have you ever tried to write a bullet-proof script
file to handle all configurations, and that would not break no matter what
configuration it found?) I didn't have any problems because I didn't want
all the ARP stuff (some is unusable with my system as set up, and a few
commands I have replacements for that I prefer), so I did it manually. I
NEVER execute a script file without looking at it carefully first to see if
it will do things I might not want done.

>however there seems to be 30 day money back satisfaction Warranty listed in 
>the manual which I presently feel that I may have to use.

It's up to you of course, but the combination of TxEd and ARexx provides a
very powerful editor that can be made to do all sorts of marvellous things
that you normally would not associate with an editor. Out of the points you
raised:

1. Limited file size - untrue.
2. Uses arp.library - subjective opinion, possibly based upon a
   misconception, and perhaps should be rethought.
3. Difficult ARP installation - Really nothing to do with TxEd
4. Resident command - Don't know for sure, because I don't use it (or any
   resident command... but many have reported using it successfully.

In short, I hate to see a quality product get a bum rap. There are enough
dogs out there that deserve to be slammed.

-larry

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       Amiga checkmark, and the rest of the word describes MsDos.
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