Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!yale!sekora-jay From: sekora-jay@CS.YALE.EDU (Jay Sekora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Word processor for C64 Keywords: The Write Stuff Message-ID: <56488@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 10 Apr 89 23:43:12 GMT References: <5429@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: sekora-jay@CS.YALE.EDU (Jay Sekora) Distribution: na Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 46 In article <5429@cbnews.ATT.COM> ewm@mvusa.ATT.COM (edward.w.mcfarland) writes: > > I am in the market for a word processing software package that has the >capability to automatically merge a file of names and addresses to the blank >area where the name and address would go on a form contained in another file. >MSDOS programs like PC-Write do this sort of thing and I would appreciate >finding a package for the C64 that could do the same. Anyone know of one? > I just printed out 60 job application letters and labels using The Write Stuff WP for the 64. I am very happy with it. It's got zillions of amazing features (tm), and can hold a document up to about 15 double-spaced pages. It's also got an 80-column graphic preview mode, whose legibility depends on the quality of your TV or monitor, but it's certainly good enough to figure out where pages break and so on. 2 mild disadvantages: it doesn't have a spelling checker, and it has it's own keyboard routine (it doesn't use the ROM keyscan routine), which is a little picky - e.g., if you press two keys at as-close-to-exactly-the-same- time as you can get, it doesn't always catch both of them. It does have a Dvorak keyboard option, and it'll read (and write) lots of different WP file formats (Paperclip, SpeedScript, true ASCII, etc.). It's also very customi- zable. To get it to do labels, I just told it the pages were 12 lines (two inches) long, set the top and bottom margins to 1 line (doesn't work with 0), and spaced my address and the ``fill markers'' (space for the mail-merge data) appropriately so I got my return address and the destination addresses on alternating labels (fan-fold labels). If you want The Write Stuff to make full use of all your special printer features (assuming you have something fancier/more complicated than a 1525 or a daisywheel) you'll have to be fairly comfortable wading through the printer manual to find the proper codes. Once you've got the program cus- tomized for your printer, though, it's quite easy to use. The Write Stuff was developed and is marketted by Busy Bee Software. I think they advertise in RUN magazine. If you want their address and current prices (I think the C64 version is about $25.00), mail me and I'll let you know. >Thanks You're welcome; good luck. > >Ed McFarland ewm@mvusa.ATT.COM ____________________________________________________________________________ DISCLAIMER: Everything I say is the| sekora-jay@yale.UUCP absolute and utter truth, but Yale | {backbone}!yale!sekora-jay doesn't necessarily know this. | sekjaya@yalevm.BITNET | 6455 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520