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WHAT IS CE?

    CE is a farily simple, easy to use unix text editor.  It allows full
    cursor control, in fact, you must have cursor keys to use it!  It will
    also support Function keys if your terminal has them.

WHY CE?

    CE will allow newcomers to unix, and those who arent technically minded,
    or those who just dont want to have to learn a very user unfriendly editor
    that is common to unix.  (I.e. VI/EMACS)

    Quite simply, my design goal was to have just about any computerphobic
    person using CE in the shortest amount of time possible, with the smallest
    amount of documentation possible.  My goal was to have people using it in
    under 20 minutes, and I think ive got that down to about 10 :)

    CE has been selected by Michigan State University for use in their student
    email system.  And as such, this version has been run litterally hundreds
    of thousands of times without incident.

FEATURES:

    CE cant have many features one might think, being simple and all, and its
    true, CE in comparison to EMACS or VI has just about no features, but it
    has enough to allow decent text editing for the average joe.

    In fact, it allows rather good editing for just about anything.  I have
    written CE entirely within CE since version 1.1e (which I released about
    5 months ago).  I find I have become attached to it, and it is a painful
    experience to have to code something entirely in VI these days.

    Features:

    * Word Wrap
    * Free Cursor Movement
    * Visual CUT/PASTE/MOVE
    * Context-Sensitive help
    * A togglable mini-menu
    * Internal help available
    * User defineable shell escapes

RUNS ON:

    CE has been tested, and used by myself on Sun Sparc's, NeXT's, Convex's,
    and an AT&T 3b2.  Others have been using it on RS/6000's.

    However, CE should work on just about any system, if you cant get it to
    work, drop me a note, and Ill see what I can do.

WHERE CAN I GET IT

    CE v1.2 is available for anonymous ftp on crs.cl.msu.edu

    If you dont have FTP support, drop me a note, and Ill send you a uuencoded
    copy.  The uuencoded distribution is ~120k.

    Note:  You must have an ANSI compliant compiler to use CE.  If you do not
    I have created binaries for both Sun Sparc's and the AT&T 3b2.  These are
    available in the ce1.2bin.tar.Z file.

    If you want it via email, be sure to mention if you want the binaries or
    just the source.  The binary uuencoded file is ~152k
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Charles Henrich      Michigan State University      henrich@crs.cl.msu.edu