All about Applewriter IIe. - book reviews

Of the three books, the most interesting in concept is All About APPLEWRITER IIe. Beginning with the claim that APPLEWRITER IIe outsells all other Apple IIe word processors, Don proceeds to tear into the structure of the Apple II machine, its Disk Operating System, and especially APPLEWRITER II.

It seems that APPLEWRITER II is built out of program modules colectively called 'WPL,' which is essentially a programming language optimized for word processing. Don's intention is to teach you how to use WPL to modify APPLEWRITER II to fit like a glove and in the process witness the intimate details of a well-written program. Absolutely perfect for the precocious teenager.

In addition to selling companion utility disks, Synergetics offers several free patches for both of the current versions of applewriter. One patch, NULL, provides an easy turn-off of embedded dot matrix printer commands. Another, SHORTLINE, cures the problem of printer commands counted as characters in the line, resulting in shot-length lines. A thid, the IIc DETRASHING PATCH, lets you use the IIe version of APPLEWRITER II on the IIc.

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