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From: dennisf@marque.mu.edu (Dennis Flaherty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 3 Paperclip III questions...
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Date: 1 Oct 88 14:34:41 GMT
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In article <1170@ucsd.EDU> zz96sr@net1.ucsd.edu (Steve Rusk) writes:
> 
>      If there are any Paperclip III users out there.......
> 
>      1.  Does Paperclip III support serial printers?
>                    Yes     No
YES!  It supports the following, from my documentation:
C-1515     Epson MX Series           Okidata ML82/82A/83A
C-1525     Epson MX II Series        Okidata ML84,ML92
MPS-801     (Graftrax Plus)          Okimate 10,120?
C-1526     Epson FX and RX Series    NEC PC8023A
MPS-802    Epson LQ1500              NEC Spinwriter 5530/7730
MPP-1361   Epson LX80                NEC Pinwriter P6/P7
MPS-1000   Gemini 10/10X             C.Itoh 8510A,1550
MPS-803    Gemini 15/15X             Seikosha GP-550CD
Centrnics 737               Silver Reed EXP400,500
Canon 1080A                 Commodore PETSCII
Citizen MSP-10/15           True ASCII
Citizen MSP-20/25           True ASCII with backspace
Mannesman Tally MT160       Diablo Compatible Printers
Blue Chip M120/10
Juki 6000,6100
Panasonic KXP1090,1091

>      2.  What method of copy protection does Paperclip III use?
>               None     Dongle     Disk
None.  PCIII includes a copy program for those who don't have
their own, so the owner can make backups.

>      3.  Are files created by the original Paperclip compatible
>          with Paperclip III?
>                    Yes     No
Yes, you can even load files from other wordprocessors.  However,
there is no mention in the documentation as to whether old files
can be simply loaded and processed without any modification.

Generally, I'm really happy with PCIII.  I run my backup on
my C-128 and I'm convinced it has every feature the others have.
I particularly like the wordwrap, spell-checker, menus, and the
capibility to print the output to a file that I can upload to my
university's computers (using kermit; the built-in terminal
package doesn't handle vt100 escape sequences and only uses
xmodem).  It uses the RGB screen to show an 80-by-50 video
preview-- yes, that's 50 rows.

What leaves much to be desired is the editor; while
I can open and delete lines, PCIII only lets me move around
one character at a time, up, down, left, or right, or by
one screenful up or down, or to the beginning/end of the buffer.
I'd like to move to the end/beginning of a line or sentence or
paragraph.  I've discovered other nuisances with inserting
tabs and CRs.  Perhaps the unix editors have spoiled me.:-)

The program has so many features that to do justice to PCIII
would be to show you the 200-page manual.  Hope this helps.
-- 
Dennis Flaherty,  Marquette University ,-------------------------------
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