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From: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Final Word
Keywords: Scribe clone
Message-ID: <1114@ns.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 89 18:12:33 GMT
References: <26588@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Reply-To: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
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In article <26588@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> aterry@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Stack Overflow) writes:
:I am looking for a text formatter for a PC.  I am very fond of Scribe, which
:runs on vaxen and other, larger-than-PC machines.  I have heard rumors of a
:Scribe clone called Final Word that is supposed to run on PCs.  

Borland's SPRINT wp package is based on FinalWord II; the formatter (which
can be used separately) is very FinalWord-like, and I think fairly Scribe-
like but I'm not much of a real-Scribe expert.  Since Borland bought the
rights for this, I assume FinalWord itself is no longer directly available,
but it may be.  You might prefer Sprint anyway. 

There was also supposed to be a MicroScribe from the MicroEmacs factory
in beta this summer, but I think it's delayed.
-- 
David Dyer-Bennet
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