Re: Text editor for DOS 3.3?

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Sep 16, 3:48 am, a2avia...@gmail.com wrote:
> FrEdWriter sucked.
>
> They used to 'make' us use it, so a copy of AppleWriter got sector
> edited to look like FrEdWriter. Now when they walked passed and saw
> the screen.. it had the proper software running on it. :)
>
> Even bringing your own *original* disk to school didn't help. Things
> have not changed *much* in 20 years.. ;)
>
> Oh, and FrEdWriter is ProDOS.. You want AppleWriter and not 2.0 which
> is ProDOS.

AppleWriter ][ 2.0 that is. There were several revisions of pre ]
[ AppleWriter - the early ones used inverse characters to fake
lowercase support and wrote non-standard binary files. AppleWriter ]
[ DOS is very similar to the ProDOS version. About the only thing
you'll miss is correct support for the alternate display mode - if you
run it on a IIe or IIc you'll get the odd mousetext character where
there should have been something else.

> ..and then lets not forget about WPL. AppleWriter was ahead of it's
> time.

Absolutely! WPL makes AppleWriter the 'emacs' of Apple II text
editors.

Matt