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From: ajy2208%ritcv@cs.rit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Keep the faith
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Date: 29 Mar 89 15:23:43 GMT
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Reply-To: ajy2208%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (Albert Yarusso)
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Textpro is another excellent PD 8-bit program. It is an exceptional word
processor that I have been using for some time on my hard drive system.
There are some things I wish it did have though, such as 80 column support
for the XEP80, and a dictionary (although I could live with an external
dictionary program--anyone have a good one???).  It would be nice if the
program was a little faster in some operations, such as in sorting the
directory and during search/replace operations.  Oh yea, the only bug I've
found in the program is if you have a directory that takes up more than
the three columns allocated (when you hit Ctrl-m), the program locks-up.
I continually run into this since I have lots of files on my hard drive
(yes, I make extensive use of subdirectories too), and fortunately hitting
RESET fixes the problem (and retains the document in memory). 

One of the outstanding features of Textpro is the macro language built 
into it.  I haven't used it too much (yet?) but it is very powerful
and flexible.  I'm sure someone else with more macro experience can
speak more on this subject. 

  Enuf for now, 

  Albert Yarusso

  Bitnet:   ajy2208@ritvax.bitnet
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