lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto) (12/17/86)
eat mee!!!! Is there a version of EMACS that runs on the mac?? How about other editors that read/write "plain" text files? We're using several Mac+'s as terminals/word processors/graphics stations(at home), but all our printing runs through the vax. We have a lot of material (reeports, data, etc) on the vax, formatted for troff. We also have two vt100 terminals in the office, and only 1 mac (direct connection to the VAX). What we need is a simple editor to allow us to download text files, work on them, and upload them without having to reformat (other than the cr<->nl conversion). This leaves MSWord out. I just got the demo version of FastEddie2, I haven't tried it yet, but from the docs I would guess that some of the computerphobes would have a rough time getting the hang of it. Emacs would be the ideal, since they already know it. Failing that, we need something really easy to learn. PS: Is mockwrite what I'm looking for. I've seen a lot of references to it on the net, but I've never seen it advertised, posted, or in the GEnie software library. PPS: Thanks for all those who tried to help with my earlier printer travails, I did eventually get it running, now it seems to have died, I should have bought an imagewriter. Michael Lonetto UUCP:(allegra!phri!lonetto) USMAIL: Public Health Research Institute, 455 1st Ave, NY, NY 10016
tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) (12/25/86)
FastEddie opens files a lot faster than uEMACS. If you have big files
you will go to sleep waiting for uEMACS.
FastEddie also supports overlapping windows.
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