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Ross Morley (ross@prpa.philips.com) wrote:
: pgf@cayman.com (Paul Fox) writes:

: Gee, the net readers out there might get the impression that
: some faithful user of the public version is willing to pick up
: development where the original author left off when he went
: commercial. That's admirable! I think it's especially
: appropriate and very interesting that this user happens to have
: the same name as the author of CRISP who also develops and
: maintains the commercial version.  Interesting marketing
: strategy... or are there two Paul Fox's? (after all, their
: email addresses are different - the author of CRISP is in
: England).

: Well, I have to say CRISP is a good product and the commercial 
: version is much better than the public one (currently). 
: Good job Paul. 

Okay -- confusion clear-up time.  Yes, there are TWO Paul Fox's.  There's
the one in England that wrote the original CRISP, and who I assume still
does maintenance/development on the commercial version (is that true,
Rohit?).  I, on the other hand, am a different Paul Fox, who also happens
to be in the editor "business", though non-commercially.  I wrote (based on
MicroEmacs) and maintain a vi-like editor I affectionately call "vile",
which is freely available.  (ftp to ftp.cayman.com)

And apologies time: I didn't mean to malign the other Paul Fox's wish to
make money, nor did I wish to malign his commercial improvements to CRISP. 
By all reports CRISP in its commercial form is a very good editor.  The
feature list is certainly impressive.

I only wanted to be sure people know that just because Rohit regularly
pushes the commercial version (naturally) on the net, that doesn't mean
that the public (shareware -- I didn't know that before) version isn't
still available, and that perhaps someone out there _has_ done some
maintenance to make it work on an SGI machine, as the original poster
asked...

(And Rohit -- I agree, $149 doesn't seem that bad -- I was basing my opinion
on the price of roughly $400 that you once sent me for a 1-2 user license.)

paul