david@sickkids.UUCP (David Mosher ) (01/22/87)
I have written a group of programs using Lattice-C on the
HP150. Several of the programs create/append to simple
sequential Ascii files. The programs themselves allow
the user to do some editing while data is being entered, but
from *time to time*, it is necessary to manually edit the
files.
This is where the problems start. I've tried using many of
the common word processing packages to edit the files. The two
common problems that have arisen are:
1) The word processing program adds it's own strange
control characters (minor problem as compared to '2)')
2) A file is manually edited, then the C program writes
a few lines to the end, and the system seems to have no idea of
where the End-of-File is anymore. The file size has suddenly
doubled, with streams of garbage appearing at EOF.
Right now, I am using the good old MS-DOS text editor, which is
a real pain! What I need is a simple, clean, preferably full-
screen text editor for the HP150.
If you have any advice, suggestions, etc. please e-mail me at:
{utzoo!decvax}!sickkids!david
Thanks in advance
David Mosher
Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Canada