Design and Implementation of an Integrated Screen-Oriented Text Editing and Formatting System.

Abstract

Text editors and text formatters/processors are described. The state-of-the-art in text processing is examined. Design and implementation considerations in developing an interactive, integrated, screen-oriented text editing and formatting system are discussed. A Berkeley PASCAL implementation of such a system for a PDP-11 minicomputer under the UNIX timesharing system is presented. Intended system users are non-computer scientists, e.g. secretaries, business executives, engineers, students, etc. Programming experience is not required to utilize the system. (Author)

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA092180

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  • Lisa Anne Talmage

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  • Naval Postgraduate School

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