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From: neighbor@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Alan Ding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 36K + ProDos Editor
Keywords: Word Processor
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Date: 9 Aug 88 00:27:11 GMT
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In article <160@thelink.UUCP> oliver@thelink.UUCP (Joel Sumner) writes:
>I have a small problem.  I currently own AE Mousetalk (1.5) and sometimes 
>have problems editing lengthy comp.binaries.apple2 files (500+ lines).  The
>editor is only 36K and so I cannot load some of the files into memory to 
>modify them (case in point.  David Whitney goofed on  his Zlink post and needed
>the last line to be changed. Not easy because it was a 600 line post).  I don't
>mind exiting mousetalk but  I don't even have any ProDos Word processors that
>will do the trick.  I have FreeWriter but it is bound by about 30K also.  I have
>Appleworks but that tends to severly mangle any executioner files (it puts a 
>space in every line of text around character 60 when the margins are srt back 
>to 0 inches on either side.)

I just finished working on several DAVEX external commands that I will post
soon.  They can help in dealing with large files.  One of them, called
"WC", will do a line count.  Another, called "SPLIT"  will split up any file
into a separate file or the screen.  You specify a starting and ending/length
in either bytes or lines.  Another is "COMBINE" which will let you combine
files of any type back together again once split up.  These commands all work
from the shell which is really nice.  (That is if you own the shell.)

Sometimes I forget to get rid of the UUCP headers on downloaded files from
Comp.binaries.apple2.  Now I can use SPLIT to split off the section of the
file without the headers.  I can use the DAVEX command FIND to find what
line number the CALL-151 starts on.  I could also find what line number
the E00G starts on.  Then I could split off the section inbetween.

(In the case of the Zlink.  You could have split off everything except the
last line and then appended on the new line with either ECHO or COMBINE.
Since Zlink is so large he had to split it up and put it back together again
using the B parameter in BASIC.  My split/combine programs would work
perfect for that.  Unfortunately not everyone owns DAVEX so this would probably
never become a standard.)

>    Are there any inexpensively priced word processors that will do the trick.
>I can transfer my files to DOS 3.3 and use Applewriter II if necessary but it
>is not my program and so I hesitate in using it).  I know ProTerm has a 44K
>editor but I don't really want to shell out another $120 just for an editor.
>Any recommendations?
> 
>Thanks

Well I vowed I would start working on a TEXT editor for ProDOS.  I think that
it will be my next project.  It will emulate VI and include many features
known to APPLEWORKS  (open-apple commands).  First I will make a fully memory
resident program.  I think I can make a 80k editing space.  This program
will require 128k machines.  After that I will work on a virtual.

I don't plan on making it Shareware.  It will be FREE.  (why bother with
money.  I program for fun.)

So if all you dudes can wait,  Hopefully I'll get this out in a few months.

neighbor@csd4.milw.wisc.edu

P.S.  Look for my new DAVEX externals (4 of them! Total of 8!)

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