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Article #1045Re: Scribe availability
From: Robert Plamondon
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1986 16:30
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1986 16:30
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Scribe is incredibly expensive. Fortunately, there are competing products
out there that cost less. One is FinalWord II by Mark of the Unicorn, which
is available for MS-DOS, CP/M, CP/M-86, and (I think) some versions of UNIX.
It costs about $200, which is more than an order of magnitude cheaper than
Scribe. I've been using FinalWord II and its predecessor for four years; I'm
very happy with it.
If the formatter isn't 100% Scribe-compatible, it's still close. I've never
used Scribe, but I've leafed through the manual and virtually every command I
saw would run fine on FinalWord II.
The editor is very Emacs-like, complete with a macro language. It supports
DMA to the video display as well as more mundane methods, so screen updates
are very fast.
Mark of the Unicorn can be reached at (617) 576 2760.
They also have a BBS at (617) 484 2594
--
Robert Plamondon
UUCP: {pyramid,turtlevax, cae780}!weitek!robert
Disclaimer: It's not my fault!
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!turtlevax!weitek!robert From: robert@weitek.UUCP (Robert Plamondon) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: Scribe availability Message-ID: <478@weitek.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 12:30:26 EDT Article-I.D.: weitek.478 Posted: Tue Sep 2 12:30:26 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Sep-86 04:19:00 EDT References: <3046@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> <514@bambi.UUCP> <5102@decwrl.DEC.COM> Reply-To: robert@weitek.UUCP (Robert Plamondon) Distribution: net Organization: WEITEK Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 26 Summary: Try FinalWord II