As I have have heard and examined, the PRINT routines of the PTE ][ are quite bug-infested. Most attempts at receiving quality print with the WORD WRAP option were befuddled. It is with your nasty words at heart that I set out and conquered all bugs within the PTE][. Now, print desired to be formatted will come out vastly differnet than before; lines will be word wrapped properly and pagination after 60 lines will occur !!! (Even with sigle or triple spacing!) PTE ][e (e for error-be-gone) is the culmination of a days work onthe subject of in-home extermination.
The use of PTE ][e is identical to that of the PTE ][. Now, word wrap will work fine on output to printers, and pagination will occur after 60 lines of print (30 double-spaced, 20 triple-spaced, etc.). Page length is set at 66 lines. Below are locations you can change to tailor make your own PTE ][e, with no need to re-run a long BASIC program. I didn't include a setting to alter page length as I figured most people's paper is 66 lines long. If this happens to be a grossly inaccurate thought then send a letter bomb promptly via EMAIL.
Other than a couple of other minor buglets, PTE][ is the same piece of $%X&!!X&! that it always has been. PTE ]I[, the next generation word processor should be ready any week now. Command requests are still being honored via SIG messages and EMAIL, so if you want a feature in an imbedded command word processor, that you feel yours is missing, let me know (soon, please) ! Other than that here are the POKE locations for you weirdo RS-232 and assorted users out there.
Make sure that you SAVE a copy of PTE ][e with your own settings BEFORE actually RUNning it. Otherwise, important pointers to your BASIC program will get botched up and the SAVE will probably fail.
Another thought. Please leave a space between any characters and the RETURN marker if you intend to print out the buffer using WORD WRAP. In other words, if you end a paragraph with a period, don't just hit RETURN if you intend to print it out using the PTE's Word Wrap option. Instead leave a space, then type RETURN. Sorry for any incov this may cause you. If it really bothers you, lemme know, and I'll try to find a fix.
Last thing. I use the a relocated PTE ][e up at $c000 as an editor for the CBM Assembler. It probably isn't as good as the one that comes with it, but it sure makes the PTE ][ seem almost useful. Try it, you'll like it.
