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From: jdm@gryphon.CTS.COM (John Mesiavech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some minuses to Txed Plus
Message-ID: <3819@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 4 May 88 20:28:57 GMT
References: <1744@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: jdm@gryphon.CTS.COM (John Mesiavech)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 38
Summary: Welllll....TxEd *DOES* have limits.....but is nice.


   Without adding to the flames and counter-flames regarding TxEd Plus,
let me add these facts:
 
1) TxEd DOES have a limit on files....I have thrown a 614K file at TxEd
  on a 1 meg Amiga with 800K free (i.e. TxEd was the only thing on
  the system), and TxEd barfed on it.  This is using TxEd Plus with
  REXX installed ONLY.   The specific error was "Out of memory".
 
2) The REXXDemo file does have a bug in it.  When telling TxEd to run the
   tutorial.txed macrofile, I keep getting "Command WINDOW xx.xx.xx.xx
   undefined", and the demo goes into an infinite loop.

3) The installation macros will only go to the internal drive.  Hard disk
   owners will have to do the copy manually (I know that I did; and I have
   a hard drive).  *Sigh*.  

    Kudos to Charlie Heath for the new TxEd on all other counts though...
The program was extremely useful beofre, and is even more so now.  Kudos
also to Scott Ballantyne and the rest of the people responsible for ARP,
and to Bill Hawes for CONMAN (provided on the TxEd Plus disk) and AREXX.

     Now, if the above-mentioned bugs could be fixed, and a netnews interface
added, who would need GNU Emacs?  B->

John


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