bjl@freyr.pttrnl.nl (Ben Lippolt) (11/02/90)
Hi, I'm looking for a simple and user-friendly editor for a Silicon Graphics Personal Iris system. This will be used be a rather inexperienced user (he has some experience on PCs, e.g. with WordPerfect). Vi and Emacs with their cryptic commands are out of the question. - Is there such a (preferably a PD) editor? - Is WordPerfect available on this machine? - Is there a PC-emulator (SoftPC?) under which MS-DOS programs (like WP) can run? If so, what can this emulator do and how fast is it? - XView seems to run on the Iris. Does "textedit" work? Thanks for any info. Ben J. Lippolt --- PTT Research, Dr. Neher Laboratories [ E-mail : BJ_Lippolt@pttrnl.nl ] P.O. Box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam, [ BITnet : LIPPOLT@HLSDNL5 ] The Netherlands. Tel: +31 70 3325439 [ UUCP : hp4nl!dnlunx!bjl ]
dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) (11/06/90)
In article <bjl.657536888@freyr> BJ_Lippolt@pttrnl.nl writes: >Hi, > >I'm looking for a simple and user-friendly editor for a Silicon Graphics >Personal Iris system. This will be used be a rather inexperienced user (he >has some experience on PCs, e.g. with WordPerfect). >Vi and Emacs with their cryptic commands are out of the question. > ... STUF DELETED .... Try 'jot'. It comes with the system. It could use a lot of work to be really usefull, but for a novice, it's really great. I purchased an editor called 'AME'. It did some real nice stuff, but unfortunately, I could type faster than it could catch characters and it would miss them. Got to be too much of a pain with all the lost characters so I gave up on it. ~ -- ##################################################################### # CompuServe: >INTERNET:uunet.UU.NET!ki!dwatts Dan Watts # # UUCP : ...!{uunet | wgc386}!ki!dwatts Ki Research, Inc. # ############### New Dimensions In Network Connectivity ##############
scfisher@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steven Fisher) (11/06/90)
In article <879@ki.UUCP> dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) writes: !>In article <bjl.657536888@freyr> BJ_Lippolt@pttrnl.nl writes: !>>Hi, !>> !>>I'm looking for a simple and user-friendly editor for a Silicon Graphics !>>Personal Iris system. This will be used be a rather inexperienced user (he !>>has some experience on PCs, e.g. with WordPerfect). !>>Vi and Emacs with their cryptic commands are out of the question. !>> ... STUF DELETED .... !> !>Try 'jot'. It comes with the system. It could use a lot of work to be !>really usefull, but for a novice, it's really great. I purchased an !>editor called 'AME'. It did some real nice stuff, but unfortunately, I !>could type faster than it could catch characters and it would miss them. !>Got to be too much of a pain with all the lost characters so I gave up on !>it. Newer versions of AME are far better about not dropping characters - my old version of it dropped quite a few, but I can't think of the last time that i lost any characters with my current version. I definately think its worth the money ($500.00). -steve