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- From: pgf@cayman.com (Paul Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: WANTED: CRISP for IRIX 4.0.X
- Message-ID: <12790@cayman.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:20:41 GMT
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- Ross Morley (ross@prpa.philips.com) wrote:
- : pgf@cayman.com (Paul Fox) writes:
-
- : Gee, the net readers out there might get the impression that
- : some faithful user of the public version is willing to pick up
- : development where the original author left off when he went
- : commercial. That's admirable! I think it's especially
- : appropriate and very interesting that this user happens to have
- : the same name as the author of CRISP who also develops and
- : maintains the commercial version. Interesting marketing
- : strategy... or are there two Paul Fox's? (after all, their
- : email addresses are different - the author of CRISP is in
- : England).
-
- : Well, I have to say CRISP is a good product and the commercial
- : version is much better than the public one (currently).
- : Good job Paul.
-
- Okay -- confusion clear-up time. Yes, there are TWO Paul Fox's. There's
- the one in England that wrote the original CRISP, and who I assume still
- does maintenance/development on the commercial version (is that true,
- Rohit?). I, on the other hand, am a different Paul Fox, who also happens
- to be in the editor "business", though non-commercially. I wrote (based on
- MicroEmacs) and maintain a vi-like editor I affectionately call "vile",
- which is freely available. (ftp to ftp.cayman.com)
-
- And apologies time: I didn't mean to malign the other Paul Fox's wish to
- make money, nor did I wish to malign his commercial improvements to CRISP.
- By all reports CRISP in its commercial form is a very good editor. The
- feature list is certainly impressive.
-
- I only wanted to be sure people know that just because Rohit regularly
- pushes the commercial version (naturally) on the net, that doesn't mean
- that the public (shareware -- I didn't know that before) version isn't
- still available, and that perhaps someone out there _has_ done some
- maintenance to make it work on an SGI machine, as the original poster
- asked...
-
- (And Rohit -- I agree, $149 doesn't seem that bad -- I was basing my opinion
- on the price of roughly $400 that you once sent me for a 1-2 user license.)
-
- paul
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