Brief 3.1 for MSDOS

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2 total messages Started by szathmary Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:29

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Author: szathmary
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:29

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I have just received an advertisement for Brief 3.1 for MSDOS from Borland.
Would anyone be able to comment on the quality of this editor?

Thanks.

Re: Brief 3.1 for MSDOS

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Author: Michael Masterson
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 00:16

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taph2@syma.sussex.ac.uk (David Joyce) writes:

>From article <1993Jan26.222926.1@sscl.uwo.ca>, by szathmary@sscl.uwo.ca:

>From what you said;

>> 
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>> I have just received an advertisement for Brief 3.1 for MSDOS from Borland.
>> Would anyone be able to comment on the quality of this editor?

>I have owned and used Brief since 1988 (up to version 3.0) from Solution
>Systems, and I presume Borland (as always) have taken it over.  As long
>as they haven't messed it up (as Solution Systems did version 3.1, I
>think it would be the same), I would highly recommend this editor.
>You can edit files up to 32Mb, compile within the editor using the

You can edit files much larger than that, I've edited files that were
hundreds of megs in size.  I think the limit is 4 billion lines and 4
gigabytes... but I'm not sure.

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