Date   : Mon, 03 Jun 1985 15:21:24 GMT
From   : Chuck McManis <cem%intelca.uucp@BRL.ARPA>
Subject: Re: EMACS for CP/M, MINCE, and SCRIBBLE

> 
> Mince and Scribble for CP/M-80 live on as Perfect Writer and Perfect
> Formatter (respectively), and used to come standard with Kaypros.  I don't
> know if Kaypro still furnishes the (im)Perfect family.   Unfortunately, 
> source is not available for the Perfect versions.  You can do some 
> limited customization by rebinding keys and telling it a bit about your 
> printer (but you can't get superscripts and subscripts unless your printer
> is one of the `supported' models-- no way to write your own driver for 
> others).  
> 
> --Michal Young
>   young@uci.arpa

However, Mince could handle files larger than 64K wheras Perfect Writer
didn't seem to. Even with a huge >128K swap file. It is/was quite a shame
for MotU to drop Mince/Scribble support like it did. Now if they would
just release the source to the public domain...

--Chuck
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