Scribe availability

[Jean Marie Diaz]

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The text formatter Scribe is a copyrighted program sold by Unilogic.
As far as I know, there are no public domain versions available.

Unilogic's address is:

Unilogic, Ltd.
Scribe Systems Divisions
160 North Craig St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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AMBAR
"Timid entrant into the Rich Rosen School of Computer Learning...."

[Mike Caplinger]

I was under the impression that the version of Scribe written by Brian
Reid while he was at CMU was available from CMU at minimal charge.
Since it was written for DEC-10/20 in Bliss-20, though, that might
not do anybody any good.

I hope this doesn't mangle the facts too badly. I'm sure Brian will
comment if he sees this. Naturally, even if you could do something
with the original, you'd miss out on the zillion man-years Unilogic
has probably put into it (based on the price, I hope they have anyhow...)

Mike Caplinger (mi...@bellcore.com)

[Brian Reid]

I am the original author of Scribe. I do not have sources to it any more; I
am just a customer like everybody else.

Scribe is available from Unilogic in Pittsburgh, PA. When I finger them at
CMU I get this result:

Address:
Unilogic, Ltd.
Suite 240, Commerce Court
Four Station Square
Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1119
Phone:
(412) 281-5959

Scribe is very expensive. A Scribe binary license costs more than a Unix
source license.

[Robert Plamondon]

Scribe is incredibly expensive. Fortunately, there are competing products
out there that cost less. One is FinalWord II by Mark of the Unicorn, which
is available for MS-DOS, CP/M, CP/M-86, and (I think) some versions of UNIX.
It costs about $200, which is more than an order of magnitude cheaper than
Scribe. I've been using FinalWord II and its predecessor for four years; I'm
very happy with it.

If the formatter isn't 100% Scribe-compatible, it's still close. I've never
used Scribe, but I've leafed through the manual and virtually every command I
saw would run fine on FinalWord II.

The editor is very Emacs-like, complete with a macro language. It supports
DMA to the video display as well as more mundane methods, so screen updates
are very fast.

Mark of the Unicorn can be reached at (617) 576 2760.

They also have a BBS at (617) 484 2594

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Robert Plamondon
UUCP: {pyramid,turtlevax, cae780}!weitek!robert

Disclaimer: It's not my fault!