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- From: bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Column Editor ??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.174143.26098@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:41:43 GMT
- References: <C17Ey4.DCs@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk> <C1BKK6.5DA@chinet.chi.il.us> <richard.727862762@dutepp13>
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- In article <richard.727862762@dutepp13> Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman) writes:
- >les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
- >
- >>In article <C17Ey4.DCs@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk> chris47@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Chris Brown ) writes:
- >>>Im looking for an editor which will ......
- >>> outputs ASCII
- >
- >>Wordperfect should work...
- >
- >Now WordPerfect doesn't really output ASCII, now does it?
- >Perhaps by using a hack: printing through a stripped down printer
- >driver with only ASCII characters and without control codes.
-
- Yes, it does. F10, then one of the options shown (Save DOS text, I think).
- However, WP column editing ability is strictly limited to columns you've
- predefined before setting up the data file. And moving between columns is
- a pain.
-
- Barbara Vaughan
-