Re: AppleWorks 5 limits

[stevee@onix.com]

Gareth Jones wrote in reply to my question about whether there are any
freeware or shareware word processors for very large files:


> Would you consider a CDA? File-A-Trix (now freeware, from Karl
> Bunker) has a "View Text File" function that will handle any
> type of file, of any size.

This is a great reply to my post as it appeared, but the last paragraph
of that post somehow lost a sentence or so in transmission.  To
rephrase, I have a GS with 2 meg.  A few times, I have tried to edit
text files which were too large for AppleWorks 5.1--say, in the range
of 1.5 meg.  Although there are GS text editors which can read very
large files, such as, as you mention, File-A-Trix, most if not all of
them run under GS/OS, which itself takes so much RAM that there might
not be enough left for a big text file.  Is File-A-Trix one of the very
few CDA's which can run under ProDOS 8?  If not, does anyone know of
other 8-bit word processors which allow very large files and can use
all available GS memory?  An 8-bit commercial word processor might be
of as much or more interest here than a shareware effort, since the
commercial program may be available on comp.sys.apple2.marketplace.

Steve Eisenberg    Pennsylvania, U.S.A.    stevee@onix.com