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From: dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Good Word Processors (was Re: Fool In the Rain, ALPE)
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Date: 7 Mar 89 14:39:46 GMT
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In article <312@athertn.Atherton.COM> paul@athertn.Atherton.COM (Paul Sander) writes:
>
>I am a faithful Apple II (Plus) user, and I must disagree with this last
>sentence.  There has NEVER, EVER been a usable word processor of any sort
>(in my own opinion) that runs on ANY of the Apple II operating systems
>since the Apple II line came out.  In order to do any serious writing, I 
>have to boot up CP/M.  Short 30-page manuals overflow everything I have
>under DOS 3.3 (I'm in the process of converting to ProDOS, but from what
>I've seen, I have nothing to look forward to in this respect), and they're 
>all so difficult to use.  I have never even HEARD of any word processor 
>that is not memory-based, permitting someone to write long documents.

Have you heard of Super Scribe? It's by Online Systems (don't know the
addr), and it was written for the ][+ all those years ago. It runs
under DOS 3.3, and it uses the disk in the drive as a virtual memory
system (it actually doesn't do this fully legally, so you do run the
risk of losing data when you save). It uses the graphics screen to get
lower case letters. It knows about the old shift key modification
trick, so that you can use a real shift key. Really quite fancy for
its time.

I'm sorry you think converting to ProDOS will cause you a total
breakdown. It is far superior to DOS 3.3. I too had the conversion
jitters, but I'm *very* glad I switched.

>Paul Sander        (408) 734-9822       | Do YOU get nervous when a
>paul@Atherton.COM                       | sys{op,adm,prg,engr} says
>{decwrl,sun,hplabs!hpda}!athertn!paul   | "oops..." ?


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