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- From: a.guillaume@trl.oz.au (Andrew Guillaume)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Need text editor
- Message-ID: <199301262028.AA24936@pogo.trl.OZ.AU>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:28:19 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
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- G'day !
-
- Stefan Voss writes:
- |I can remember two PD text editors available via ftp.
- |- AppleWriter. Now freeware.
- |- AMACS. Similar to Emacs.
- |
- |They should be on the major ftp sites for the Apple II (cco.caltech.edu, etc.).
-
- A recent post on comp.emacs states that amacs may not be PD, or at least
- not free:
-
- >name: amacs
- >version: 3.0 Release 2.8
- >implementation language: 6502 assembler
- >extension language: macros / loadable libraries (assembled)
- >scope of implementation: extensible
- >hardware/software requirements: Apple // with ProDOS
- >organization/author:
- > Creative Thinking, Included
- > Brian Fox
- > bfox@ai.mit.edu
- >not free, contact vendor for price information
-
- My email to bfox@ai.mit.edu has gone unanswered, so I can't verify
- this. But I would welcome anybody else's info on the subject.
-
- Andrew Guillaume
- a.guillaume@trl.oz.au
-