[Coco] Window Writer for OS-9

[Bill Pierce]

If you want a good graphic text editor in OS9, just use "Ed 3.1", and no, it's not "sled", "scred", "lined", or any other of the editors. It was written by Mike Sweet who gave us the "CGFX7" C graphics programming library and others.
Ed 3.1 is 80 column graphics, menu (mouse) driven, cut/copy/paste, find/replace, 80/160 columns, choice of colors, insert/overstrike modes, file merge and large buffer (slightly bigger than tsedit). Setup is simple, put the file in your cmds folder and type "ed" or "ed <pathlist>". It couldn't be simpler.

You do need CoWin in your boot (Who switched cowin for cogrf in the rep disks? Bad decision) and also, you nee stdfonts, stdptrs and stdpats in memory (same as any graphics oriented text program)
 
 
Ed 3.1 is available on RTSI:
ftp://os9archive.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/APPS/Ed_3_1.lzh
 
 
Or on my site:
https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/favorite-os9-utilities
 

 

Bill Pierce
"Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean <badfrog at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Nov 12, 2014 6:32 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Window Writer for OS-9


I had to page through an old Rainbow issue because I couldn't remember the
one I liked the most... It was Word Power 3.2.  Not OS-9, though.


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Mark Marlette <mmarlette at frontiernet.net>
wrote:

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>
> Bob's VED was pretty good I thought.... others?????
>
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> Mark Marlette
> http://www.cloud9tech.com
> mark at cloud9tech.com
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> ________________________________
>  From: "nickma2 at optusnet.com.au" <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
> To: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>; CoCoList for Color Computer
> Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 5:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Window Writer for OS-9
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>
> Ok. Thanks. Another one for the trash by the sounds of it.   :(
>
> It's a pity. Applications for OS-9 seem to fall into the... Too slow,
> too primitive or too difficult to install and run. Sometimes all of
> these at once.
>
> Shame. OS-9 is definately a powerfull OS. I do honestly believe this.
> It just falls over as far as quality applications and ease of use is
> concerned.
>
> Nick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> "CoCoList for Color
> Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> To:<coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Cc:
> Sent:Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:03:21 -0500
> Subject:Re: [Coco] Window Writer for OS-9
>
> Nick have fun setting up Window Writer. Probably the most bloated
> program for OS9 ever written. Once you figure out what all has to be
> merged with runb, where all the files go, and possibly even get it to
> run, you're out of memory.
> I tried it once as the ads I saw looked good. I finally got it to run
> and the buffer was too small for anything serious due to the program
> taking up all the room. That's the way it goes with Basic09.... They
> should've used C or asm and virtual memory for buffers and it would've
> been half the size it is... and faster. I expected better from
> OwlWare.
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