jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (04/24/87)
Farewell to Brad Banko, whose participation I will miss. I hope he finds a path back to us in the near future. Meanwhile, I have a comment to make on his farewell message. He writes... > I have really enjoyed meeting many of you, this is a one-of-a-kind forum > for serious 8bit owners, and I think that the future is still very bright > for the 8bits particularly thanks to ICD of Chicago and their excellent > products. Look for new tools like roff and a new REAL C compiler to come > out in the near future. Actually, The PRINT TOOL is an implementation of RUNOFF for the Atari which is ALREADY available. I'm not exactly sure how ROFF and RUNOFF differ, but they are at least different generations of the same idea. This excellent program makes it possible to turn out completely professional-looking reports and book manuscripts, not to mention Vu-graph slides, on your 8-bit Atari. The program is extremely well documented, in my opinion. The manual, which as I recall is some 70 pages long, is itself an example of the professional quality of document that can be produced by The PRINT TOOL. It includes features such as automatic decimal numbering of sections (if you want decimal numbering), and it produces the Table of Contents automatically. Not only that, but if you take the trouble to flag all the items you want mentioned in the Index, it will construct the Index for you also. This product is an unusually good software value at the list price of $20 and has been on sale recently for about $15. You can buy it through ANTIC or directly from the vendor. To order, check your ANTIC catalog or write to: Computer Educators Inc. 2906 Covington Road Silver Spring, MD 20910. You use The PRINT TOOL with any word processor that produces standard ASCII files, such as AtariWriter, Paper Clip, SpeedScript, or OmniWriter (CDY's 80-column WP program). You insert formatting commands as described in the manual, and The PRINT TOOL does the rest. I am not in any way affiliated with Computer Educators, Inc. -John Sangster jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa
gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan) (06/14/88)
Well, it has been fun, but all good things must come to an end. My account
here is scheduled to be terminated tomorrow. In the unlikely, though possible,
event that some of you might think me interesting enough to contact via non-
USENET methods, the infomation necessary to do so follows:
Gary Duzan
621 Shue Drive
Newark, DE 19713
(302) 738-6361
It is possible that my account will be renewed this fall. If so, I will see
(in a manner of speaking) you all then.
Gary Duzan
Time Lord
Third Regeneration
Atari Enthusiast Extreme
Shadow
Anachronistic Name Forthcoming