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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.
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- 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:
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- a) it's heavy on file descriptors (handles). External filters
- which open lots of files may fail.
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- b) programs which interact with the keyboard can cause problems.
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- The fill, justify and center filters should be OK. Things like grep, if
- you have it, are also quite useful - e.g.
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- <Mark a block>
- <Esc> run grep -v zork
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- will remove all lines in the block containing the string "zork".
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- Generally, I recommend practice on unimportant data to gain confidence.
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- 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.
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- Owing to formatting limitations, some of the documents contain things like
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- @east@ @west@
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- and so forth. These, of course, represent the cursor arrows.
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- Helpful comments may be addressed to
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- <lmoc@ee.leeds.ac.uk>
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- but I cannot promise any fixes.
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