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Magic Wand text editor. Later, this became PeachText by PeachtreeSoftware?.

Magic Wand text editor. Later, this became PeachText by Peachtree Software.

 Magic Wand text editor.  Later, this became PeachText by PeachtreeSoftware?.

 Authors:   Les Pinter, Mike Griffin and Bill Radding 
 Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Wand_(software)
 Download:  http://landover.no-ip.com/cpmcomm/text/Magicwnd.zip
 Family:    CPMEditorFamily
 Platform:  CP/M
 License:   Commercial

Full screen text editing, featuring "single stroke control keys" including using the function keys available on the end-user's terminal.

Full text formatting commands, allowing the setting of page features such as text justification, line spacing, widow/orphan management, and margins. Other features mentioned in this category include bold and underline (broken and solid) capability. "You may change any of these commands at run-time /without reformatting the file/." (original emphasis)

Merging with external data files, "with either fixed length or sequential records," allowing the generation of reports or form letters.

User-defined Variables. The MAGIC WAND allowed a maximum of 128 variables of up to 55 characters per variable. There was a seven-character limit on variable names. According to the ad copy, the variables were stored as strings, but could be treated as integers- allowing comma or decimal notation (e.g., 1,000,000.00), as well as the ability to increment or decrement the value.

Conditional commands. It seems as though MAGIC WAND allowed certain portions of a file to be printed or not as determined by a "straight-forward IF statement."