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- Bare Bones Software, Inc.
- P.O. Box 108
- Bedford, MA 01730-0108
- (508) 651-3561
- (508) 651-7584 fax
- bbsw@netcom.com [internet]
- 73051,3255 [CIS]
- BARE.BONES [AppleLink]
- BareBones [eWorld]
-
- December 1, 1994
- For Immediate Release
- Contact:
- Christopher Radliff
- Vice President/Marketing
- (508) 651-3561
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- Bare Bones Software announces new version of Premier Text Editor
-
- Natick, MA -- Bare Bones Software, Inc. today announced a January 4
- release date for version 3.1 of “BBEdit”, their popular and critically
- acclaimed text editor. This new version incorporates several
- significant enhancements to its feature set and capabilities, including
- “soft” text wrapping, interaction with development environments not
- previously supported, electronic documentation, and an all-new
- packaging and delivery system.
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- Wrap Softly and Carry a Big Stick
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- BBEdit 3.1 features new “soft” text wrapping. Previous versions of
- BBEdit required users to insert carriage returns in order to break
- lines, and to manually re-format the text while editing. BBEdit 3.1 now
- offers the option to wrap lines without inserting carriage returns, and
- will automatically re-flow lines as necessary when the user inserts or
- deletes text. According to Herb Kroemer, Professor of Electrical
- Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, “The new
- soft text wrapping turns BBEdit into a truly excellent tool for general
- text composition and manipulation, even for the non-programmer.”
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- All for One, and One for All
-
- As of version 3.1, BBEdit supports integration with THINK C and
- Symantec C++ (from Symantec Corp.), and CodeWarrior (from Metrowerks,
- Inc.). BBEdit provides a unified user interface for interacting with
- all supported environments; this interface enables the user to
- comfortably and easily switch between working environments. The ability
- to integrate with Metrowerks CodeWarrior is made possible by services
- introduced in the new “CW5” release of CodeWarrior. “Metrowerks is
- pleased to announce new AppleEvent support in CodeWarrior. This
- achieves much in making BBEdit users able to use their favorite editing
- environment with their favorite programming environment,” said Greg
- Galanos, president and CEO of Metrowerks (Austin, TX).
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- In addition to support for CodeWarrior and current versions of THINK
- C/Symantec C++, BBEdit 3.1 also supports the upcoming version 8.0 of
- Symantec C++ for Power Macintosh.
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- Chock Full o’ Goodies
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- The new version of BBEdit is the first product from Bare Bones Software
- to ship on CD-ROM. According to Rich Siegel, president and CEO, “The
- CD-ROM format gives us the ability to deliver the software to our
- customers in an extremely cost-effective manner, and the large amount
- of space on each CD makes it possible to include all sorts of goodies
- in addition to the essentials.” In addition to the BBEdit software, the
- BBEdit CD-ROM includes full documentation for BBEdit in
- machine-readable format (a printed and bound manual is available at a
- nominal extra cost), demos of products from Bare Bones Software and
- other developers, promotional information and special offers from
- various third-party developers, and a collection of BBEdit extensions
- contributed by BBEdit users from all over the world. “The electronic
- manual is great,” said Tom Emerson, software engineer in the
- Development Tools Group of Symantec Corp. “It’s much more convenient
- than flipping through a book to find what I’m looking for.”
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- BBEdit 3.1 will ship on January 4, coincident with the opening day of
- the 1995 MacWorld Exposition, in San Francisco, CA. The new version
- will bear a suggested retail price of US$119. Customers who purchase
- BBEdit 3.0 (the current version) after December 1, 1994 will be
- eligible to receive a free upgrade to version 3.1. All other owners of
- BBEdit 3.0 will be able to upgrade to the new version for US$39. An
- upgrade path is also available for users of older versions of BBEdit
- (including freeware versions), and for selected competing and
- complementary products; contact Bare Bones Software for more
- information.
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- Bare Bones Software invites current and potential customers to visit
- them in the Developer Central exhibit (booth #3600) at the MacWorld
- Expo, January 4-7, 1995. This exhibit is co-sponsored by Apple Computer
- and MacTech Magazine.
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- BBEdit and the Bare Bones Software logo are trademarks of Bare Bones
- Software, Inc. Other product names mentioned are trademarks or
- registered trademarks of their respective developers.
-