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In article <church.728187599@sfu.ca> church@fraser.sfu.ca (Mike James Church) writes:
>
>There is a program on IBM PC's called pfs: Professional Write.
>Nothing special, but for one attribute:  It has a "drawing mode" where
>the ASCII Line Drawing Character Set is "painted" onto the screen with
>the cursor.  You just choose the line style (Single or Double) and it
>places the appropriate characters on the screen.  This is great for
>tables.

Guess what: Protext has this same capability.  A copy of this software
(version 4.3, I think) is on the cover disk of the latest (?) ST Format
magazine.  I was just playing with this capability the other day by
drawing boxes around a centered title.  Nifty.

On a different topic, one of the best editors for the PC is Multi-Edit.
Multi-Edit has the line draw mode as well.  It it fast and offers
excellent mouse support with drop down menus (similar to an ST).  There
is a *fully* functional demo version of the program available (no
spelling checker, no extended programming language support, etc. but
allows almost all other functions including saving and printing files).
Screen scrolling is via mouse movement. Being a demo, it is freeware. 
Your Dad should get this - he will be impressed.  

IMHO, the Multi-Edit interface is a lot more intuitive than Sudden View
(with my admittedly very brief exposure to Sudden View), even though
there is significant overlap in the underlying concepts.

Roy C. Gosewehr
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