George Pope wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:

 TL> sure...as long as the word processor doesn't add any goofy stuff...AND
 TL> you save it as a straight text file.  I use a text based editor called
 TL> EditPad...it does search and replace, has a spell check and a lot of
 TL> other neat stuff.

 GP> That's what I meant, of course -- to save it as text-only after
 GP> you're done! :)

I only mentioned that should some newbee read the post and use a regular
waord processor (g).

 GP> Yup, I used to have a list of links to some, but seem to have
 GP> misplaced it.. :P  Had a nice DOS one in there, TinyEd or some
 GP> such, that was quite good (had all the font options if you wanted
 GP> them, but worked quite well as a plain-text editor, too (if you
 GP> saved with fonts/etc. it saved in RichText format)

I've lost all my DOS stuff...and never bothered to replace it, since all my
pages go on Linux servers....so I have the luxury of long files names and
case sensitivity.

 GP> I can see the value in firing up a WYSIWIG coder to do the little
 GP> extras that are just too time-consuming/intricate to do in pure
 GP> code. . . (like Image Maps, Tables, etc.)

One of the problems doein that, and I see examples of it every week is that
if you attempt to import an HTML segment into some of those editors...they
merrily change it. FrontBloat in known for that.

Another pitfall of FrontGas is that it's very difficult to mix regular HTML
and cgi with the FP stuff....FP wants an onwer name of nobody, and the FTP
programs insist on the login name.

So, when a customer signs up for web space and says they want FrontPage, I
have to do a lot of explaining...and if I think they aren't understanding,
I thank them for their interest and refer them to someone who has a
MicroPoop
server.

cya,
thom
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