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From: andyross@igloo.Scum.COM (Andrew Rossmann)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Borlands Sprint Editor
Message-ID: <1155@igloo.Scum.COM>
Date: 18 Feb 89 20:30:50 GMT
References: <14642@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: andyross@igloo.UUCP (Andrew Rossmann)
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In article <14642@cup.portal.com> HyperDriven@cup.portal.com (Joseph C McDonald) writes:
>has anyone used Borlands Sprint Editor? I have heard that it is *very*
>configurable. I'd be interested to hear some users comments. BTW how much
>is it?
>          -=Joseph=-
>   HyperDriven@cup.portal.com

  I bought Sprint through Borland when it first came out. (At $100 for
people who had other Borland products at the time, I couldn't resist.) I
have barely tapped the power of the program, but like it much better than
the PC-Write program I used to use. I tend to use it mostly for ASCII files
(which it handles with no problems), some small documentation files for
programs, and a weekly list of Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror movies on TV
in the Chicago area. I use Sprint's 'Plain' printer and send the output to
a file for this. It has large printer support, including lasers and
PostScript. It even supported my Tandy printer (but, unfortunately, in
Tandy mode!) Some close reading of the Advanced User's Guide and a little
surgery on the IBM Proprinter command file got me going.
  Sprint supports macros which are written in a language that has been
called a cross between C and Forth. It can emulate several different word
processors (at least at the keyboard level.) They all tend to look the
same, though. There is also a conversion utility to convert files between
Sprint's and other word processor's formats. Sprint also supports a mouse
(although response is a bit slow on my XT clone.) Printing and previewing
are actually through a separate program, but Sprint makes it look like it's
the same program doing everything. Page previewing is in text mode only.
  The list price is about $200, but it can be bought for around $150 in
most places.

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