From: gdebruin@concentric.net
In , on 11/07/97 
   at 09:04 AM, HS  said:
>tse or just the 2.5 maintenance release. Wich advantages would it have to
>install 2.8 and run it in Windows instead of running 2.5 in a DOS box?
The biggest thing that you would probably notice right off is the ability
to handle long file names in the editor.  Instead of just having
letter.doc you could have something like Letter_to_Wife.doc  The second
biggest thing you'd probably notice is the additional space that you get
(something like a couple of gigs of space to work with).
If you do anything with the macro language, there are lots of new commands
and functions to play with.
>the standard Win editor or with Win Word it takes noticeable more time to
>update the display. So I wonder if this would happen also in TSE for
>Windows. - Is the working environment about the same as in DOS TSE 2.5?
A standard windows editor and Word are GUI applications.  TSE 2.8 is a
console application -- in other words, it still looks and acts like the
DOS version of TSE.  The display updating might be a bit slower, but on
the whole it will be _very_ close to the speed of the DOS version.
For you, I think the big decision really comes down to the increased file
size, long file names, and the real Win32 implementation.  There is one
other factor that I can think of: macro size.  Since we were able to
increase the macro size in TSE Pro 2.8, there are some macros coming out
with much greater capabilities than the 2.5 version -- just look at some
of the macros that Chris Antos is putting out now.  
So, for the most part, I would say that the two are very close for your
major needs.  The extra bells and whistles are things that will depend on
your preferences.
I hope this helps.  Either way you chose, I think you will be quite
satisfied.
>TIA
>Regards
>Hanspeter Schaffner
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