Re: Column Editor ??

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From: Barbara Vaughan
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:41

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In article <richard.727862762@dutepp13> Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman) writes:
>les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>
>>In article <C17Ey4.DCs@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk> chris47@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Chris Brown ) writes:
>>>Im looking for an editor which will ......
>>>       outputs ASCII
>
>>Wordperfect should work...
>
>Now WordPerfect doesn't really output ASCII, now does it?
>Perhaps by using a hack: printing through a stripped down printer
>driver with only ASCII characters and without control codes.

Yes, it does.  F10, then one of the options shown (Save DOS text, I think).
However, WP column editing ability is strictly limited to columns you've
predefined before setting up the data file.  And moving between columns is
a pain.

Barbara Vaughan

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From: bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
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Subject: Re: Column Editor ??
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