Re: What about GrandView

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Posted by tim
2002-03-14 18:58:58

Sigh. That’s exactly correct. Going back and forth between Windows and DOS is just what takes the luster out working with old DOS apps. I have a text editor, the offspring of the old QEdit by Semware, called TSE (The SemWare Editor) that runs in 32-bit mode in a DOS window. It does just about everything that any windows app can do (long filenames, uses the windows clipboard) but I so badly wanted to use a GUI that I looked around and found a couple of products that were written java. They were painfully slow on startup, but actually worked well enough that I now only use my old dos editor for doing things that no one else has thought off. For programmers’ tools, GUIs definitely have the edge.

I’ve just sparked up GrandView to take a look. I opened up my old household todo list that I haven’t looked at it years. I guess I could do all of this with a spreadsheet, couldn’t I?

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