aterry@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Stack Overflow) (02/09/89)
I am looking for a text formatter for a PC. I am very fond of Scribe, which
runs on vaxen and other, larger-than-PC machines. I have heard rumors of a
Scribe clone called Final Word that is supposed to run on PCs. Anybody have
any experience with it, or know who puts it out? Is it a popular program,
beloved by thousands, and I just never heard about it?
thanks, Allan
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In article <26588@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> aterry@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Stack Overflow) writes:
:I am looking for a text formatter for a PC. I am very fond of Scribe, which
:runs on vaxen and other, larger-than-PC machines. I have heard rumors of a
:Scribe clone called Final Word that is supposed to run on PCs.
Borland's SPRINT wp package is based on FinalWord II; the formatter (which
can be used separately) is very FinalWord-like, and I think fairly Scribe-
like but I'm not much of a real-Scribe expert. Since Borland bought the
rights for this, I assume FinalWord itself is no longer directly available,
but it may be. You might prefer Sprint anyway.
There was also supposed to be a MicroScribe from the MicroEmacs factory
in beta this summer, but I think it's delayed.
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