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Here is the Rand editor for the PC. It is heavily based on the original
Unix version, as are the documents, but the operation on OS/2 or Dos
should be clear in most cases.
Recently, I managed to get external program operation, including the fill
and justify filters, to cough into life. The internal jiggery pokery
to get this to go for both OS/2 and Dos is best glossed over; however,
the user should be aware of restrictions:
a) it's heavy on file descriptors (handles). External filters
which open lots of files may fail.
b) programs which interact with the keyboard can cause problems.
The fill, justify and center filters should be OK. Things like grep, if
you have it, are also quite useful - e.g.
<Mark a block>
<Esc> run grep -v zork
will remove all lines in the block containing the string "zork".
Generally, I recommend practice on unimportant data to gain confidence.
This version will not drive the serial port under Dos (ctty com1:), though
I have a version that does. I may try to combine the functions in future.
Owing to formatting limitations, some of the documents contain things like
@east@ @west@
and so forth. These, of course, represent the cursor arrows.
Helpful comments may be addressed to
<lmoc@ee.leeds.ac.uk>
but I cannot promise any fixes.