Re: Other DOS outliner: PC Outline, and ?Grandview

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Outliners.com Message ID: 475

Posted by ipseity
2000-02-25 14:56:03

Hey Bob, great to find some-one else in the world who still uses PC-Outline. I have used it for 10 years now, and I just love it. I too have found the “Black Hole” Bug a problem. I assume you mean the bit where you are scrolling down and all of a sudden the whole text just shoots off the page - leaving you nowhere to go. It seems to emerge when the file sizes get much above 30k, so I just keep my files smaller than that. Bit of a pain, but you can work around it. I also have found that if I re-open the file, I can copy each block above the problem block to a new file in a new window. Seems to work for most of the text. Its like only that block is corrupted - not the whole file. I am keen to find a Windows based outliner that can match PC-Outline. So far I have found that they all suck. Don’t even mention the outliner in Word (UGHH!). All my colleagues at work think that I am off with the pixies using an old program like PC-Outline for all my work, but then none of them seem to have any idea (or interest) in what a good outliner can do. I’d love to know if you have found something to replace PC-Outline. Fortunately I can still use it since it seems like it wasn’t affected by Y2K at all. Funnily enough, neither was my MetaStock V2.5. It happily accepts 00 dates and places them in the right order after 99. Someone must have thought through the problem and included a solution at the outset. Cheers, Ray Soper

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