Re: Is there a hope for a Proterm 4.0?

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (John Lesher)]

Darren J.  CEO (rocketusa@delphi.com) wrote:
: Proterm 3.1 rules. Beats the hell out of Mac and PC rivals. I love the text
: editor, using it over all the other word processors I have on my
: loaded IIgs.  Also, it is quick and easy and loads in a jiff.
:  
: If I were to change it though, I would keep it prodos 8 because I like the
: simplicity of it. For example, just hit return three times and you are logged
: onto your favorite system.
: Proterm 3.1 uses a nice combination - the click of the mouse, like GS/OS,
: but arrow commands, which are sometimes quicker. And a nice menu bar and
: apple commands.  If it had a spell checker, that'd be nice. I like the
: simplicity it has to save in either text or apw. Word Perfect, Appleworks,
: Bank Street Writer and others do not treat TXT as an equal, unlike
: the Proterm editor. To leave the editor all you have to do is hit ESC.
: Also, bytes used are recorded right on the screen.
:  
: It would be nice to have HFS access, faxability and graphical web on a
: version 4.0, but I don't know if it is worth going to slower GS/OS to
: accomplish these things. But still, overall, Proterm may be my most used
: and useful program.  Does anyone know of an update?  Proterm 4.0 is
: one of the few programs I'd pay TOP dollar for if it added the above mentioned
: things.

I believe I heard a rumor that you'll have to wait for ProTerm-Mac (final
version), ProTerm-PC, and ProTerm-GS, before Greg Schaefer gets back
to ProTerm-II.  Or, rather, the rumor was that Greg will be working on
ProTerm-Mac and ProTerm-PC before he gets to ProTerm-GS.

I don't think GS/OS will slow down ProTerm that much, as long as it
stays away from QuickDraw.  (i.e. stays with the text interface).

Tilghman