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From: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Lil' Jake - a nifty programmer's text editor. Who makes it?????
Message-ID: <40970006@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 89 17:44:33 GMT
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aiko@cs.odu.edu (John K Hayes) writes:
>Alternatively...(as a last resort)...if you can suggest another convenient
>easy text editor for programming on an MS-DOS system, that would be very
>nice as well.
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I strongly recommend you take a look at Brief.  It's available from

    Solution Systems
    541 Main Street
    Suite 410
    So. Weymouth, MA  02190

It's very fast, edits big files (they don't have to fit in memory), it's
easy to learn, customizable, and has terrific online help (I used it for
months before cracking the manual).  You can also compile, link, and
run your programs from within Brief.  

At work I've recently moved from a PC to a Unix workstation. The     
workstation is great for everything, except that it doesn't have
Brief.  For any serious editing I still turn to Brief on a PC an
then upload my source to the workstation.

John Hardin
hardin%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com
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