Re: Want Text editor

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Adalbert Goertz writes ...
> 
> Hallo:
> I am looking for a text-editor (under Prodos8) which would
> permit loading a Txt-file , viewing it, editing it, and save
> it as a txt-file.
> What I have in mind is editing a base64-encoded text file
> which contains apple2 illegal file names inside, change those
> and save it .
> I have tried Appleworks, but after I have printed it as a text file,
> something is ruined in the process and the final product cannot be
> used.
> The Proterm3.1 editor works ok, as long as small text files
> are used, but I want to edit larger files.
> Any ideas?
 ....

     Appleworks is pretty good about creating clean Text files. If want to edit
a Text file which contains codes which Appleworks normally screens out and you
want to retain the non-Text codes, then, yes, the resulting file will be
spoiled. (The Appleworks created Text file will have the characters removed.)

     An editor which should leave alone any weird codes is the one included in
Modem MGR. Modem MGR comes in DOS 3.3 and ProDOS versions.

     If the editing you want to do involves no changes in file length-- e.g. no
deletions or insertions-- the block editor included with ProSel (named "Block
Warden") will work.



Rubywand