Re: TextAid on the Iyo

On 30 Dec 2005 Alan Wrigley
<spamhater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <4dbc48e14d.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In a mad moment I mumbled that I'd become the Membership Secretary of
>> the local branch of the MS Society, which involves a lot of entry into
>> a database of repetitive address segments, such as Cheltenham,
>> Cirencester, Gloucester, Winchcombe, Tewkesbury, Bourton-on-the-Water
>> and so on; with my typing I can do without that, and TextAid did, and
>> Ffiler now does, all that for me, including, BTW, the above list.
>
> You would probably have liked TextAid 2 which has been sitting
> unfinished on my hard drive since 1994.

Nice thought, but my jealousy is moderated by the fact that Ffiler
does what I need it to do; a fraction of what TextAid does, no doubt,
but apt for my purposes. Still, TA was most useful in its day.

With best wishes,

Peter.

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