Date   : Sun, 11 Mar 1990 07:11:00 GMT
From   : pacbell!sactoh0!ianj@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ian R. Justman)
Subject: Video Editor?

In article <49600002@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, jmgg0569@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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> 
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> I'm looking for a simple and straight forward editor (preferably video
> oriented).  I am going to get VDO25B.LBR from Simtel20.

I don't know what kind of computer you're planning to run it on
because I hear that VDO is really specialized for the computer you
want to run it on.  It uses memory-mapped video displays like that
on the Osborne, and I think, the Kaypro.  In other words, you can't
use it on a system designed to run with a dumb terminal like my
Dynabyte DB8/1 running off a CPU port, or my Ampro Little Board.
Which brings me to...

> Does anyone
> have any opinions, gripes, raves, etc. about it?  Also, can anyone
> suggest a better video editor?

I stongly suggest you look for a package called ZDE13.  It's
designed after VDE, but it works on Z-System (ZCPR3.x), but
optionally, you can use it (As the README file says) with vanilla
CP/M.  I've been using it a lot and it's a GREAT little editor.
It's not WordStar, but for small files small enough to fit in
memory (nothing over say, 30-35k), it's perfect.
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