hsgj@batcomputer.UUCP (02/07/87)
In article <39@excalibur.UUCP> 178504488@excalibur.UUCP (Cheung Wilson D) writes: > > I've been hearing glancing references to Prowrite [...] > Would someone post a review or some comments on these [...]? > Wilson Cheung I went to see my dealer the other day. As soon as I walked through the doorway, my dealer said, "please buy, Please Buy, PLEASE BUY!". "Sure," I said, "do you have this nifty new wordpro I've been hearing about, that has 8 color windows, fonts, etc? Think its called ProWrite." Well, my dealer *insisted* that ProWrite was _vaporware_. Yes, we all know that people have seen it at conventions. Yet Until it gets on the shelves, New Horizons corp is not going to be making any bucks. So, in short, my anxious dealer claims he can't order it cause it doesn't exist. And if HE says that, I am inclined to believe him... By the way, I am enjoying the printer-flame wars. Sort of like the mayoral debates in Chicago :-). I'd just like to report that my Epson clone works fine and GraphicDump even prints out one of Dave Wecker's ray-traced images in HAM mode. So for me the printer device works fine. One last comment before I shut up -- the printer flamer author said he was using NotePad. I was bored of emacs for a (very) short while, so spent a day twiddling the NotePad. I have found so many bugs or bad features that I quickly returned to emacs (and MED occasionally). If Commodore really wants a list of a typical user's dislikes of certain NotePad "features", I will be glad to spend two hours and mail them a note. Sorry! One final report: EMACS BUG: Commmodore's enhanced Emacs, latest distribution: I C-X C-K define Key'd a key with 60 characters of text. I pressed this key 10 times. This should produce 600 chars. Since EMACS has a 256 chars/line limit, I was expecting it to wrap. Instead I was greeted with a software error guru. Other emacs developers (eg mg1, or whatever its called) may want to check for this error. -- Dan Green -- ARPA: hsgj%vax2.ccs.cornell.edu@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu UUCP: ihnp4!cornell!batcomputer!hsgj BITNET: hsgj@cornella