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- From: mmaster@parnasus.dell.com (Michael Masterson)
- Subject: Re: Brief 3.1 for MSDOS
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- References: <1993Jan26.222926.1@sscl.uwo.ca> <1993Jan28.150634.27262@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 00:16:17 GMT
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- taph2@syma.sussex.ac.uk (David Joyce) writes:
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- >From article <1993Jan26.222926.1@sscl.uwo.ca>, by szathmary@sscl.uwo.ca:
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- >From what you said;
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- >>
- >>
- >> I have just received an advertisement for Brief 3.1 for MSDOS from Borland.
- >> Would anyone be able to comment on the quality of this editor?
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- >I have owned and used Brief since 1988 (up to version 3.0) from Solution
- >Systems, and I presume Borland (as always) have taken it over. As long
- >as they haven't messed it up (as Solution Systems did version 3.1, I
- >think it would be the same), I would highly recommend this editor.
- >You can edit files up to 32Mb, compile within the editor using the
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- You can edit files much larger than that, I've edited files that were
- hundreds of megs in size. I think the limit is 4 billion lines and 4
- gigabytes... but I'm not sure.
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