ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN LIMA NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 1994
 
      FUNNELWEB "EVRAM" PROGRAMMER'S EDITORS 
     and ASCII-HEX PROGRAM CONVERSION UTILITY  
     new software from Tony McGovern 
     described by Charles Good 
     Lima Ohio User Group 
      
     Tony McGovern has released "the first of several new versions of the
Funnelweb v5.0 editor".   This 80 column programmer's editor uses a fully
expanded 9938/9958 video processor with 192K ram to permit a 64K text buffer.
This a enormous by any TI standard, even larger than the text buffer of MYWORD
running on a Geneve.   In ShowDirectory you get a display of % free and number
of text lines free.  This new editor will handle over 3500 text lines.  For
technical reasons word wrap is permanently disabled.  According to Tony word
wrap would be too slow for most typists. 
      
     Although I don't write large blocks of assembly code, which is what this
editor is designed to handle, I have found some uses for the extra text buffer.
1- Text files (such as CYC files) ported over via PC TRANSFER from an MS-DOS
computer are often too large for the Funnelweb text editor.  I can load them
into the 64K program editor and them break them down conveniently into TI
Writer sized segments.  2- When I create disk listings of Lima Library
software I do this by printing DSKU disk reports to a disk file.  The resulting
DV80 disk file is often too large to fit into a normal text editor for editing,
but easily fits into the new Funnelweb 64K editor. 
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     Tony McGovern has also written a utility which converts PROGRAM files into
a text file of the ASCII equivalent.  The result is similar to the ASCII
display of a sector editor.  These ASCII text files can then be transferred to
a PC disk using PC TRANSFER and uploaded to a BBS.  Recipients of these ASCII
text files can convert them back to PROGRAM files with the same utility.  The
ASCII-HEX conversion utility is an EA5 program.  Run it, then type in the name
of a file.  If the file is a PROGRAM file you will get ASCII DV80 output.  If
the file is an ASCII file you will get output as a PROGRAM file.  This is
useful if your TI is not connected to the internet, but you know someone with a
PC that is connected to the internet.  You can then send and recieve TI PROGRAM
files using MS-DOS computers, and convert them to/from TI disks using PC
TRANSFER. 
      
     The 64K v5 editor is sharware.  The ASCII-HEX conversion utility is public
domain.  They have been uploaded to GEnie and are also available to anyone who
sends $1 to the Lima User Group, P.O. Box 647, Venedocia OH 45894. 
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     I also have from Tony McGovern a preliminary version of the 80 column
Program Editor that has TWO 64K buffers in which you can put text for editing
without word wrap.  What used to be the V(iew) buffer has been made into a
second edit buffer.  This means two gigantic text edit buffers simultaneously
in memory.  You can put different text into memory in each of the two text
buffers for editing and you can quickly switch from one buffer to the other.
You can also cut and paste between the two buffers.  FANTASTIC! Tony says "Keep
this one for yourself- it is not in shape yet- it is not a secret either." 
     .PL 1