Combiner v1.0 by Nick Vrtis is a GEOS utility that lets you combine geoWrite files with precise placement.  You can combine files from various versions of geoWrite and even move graphics images.  Full instructions are built into the help menu.

Want to thank Bruce Thomas for sending over this update to a great GEOS utility by Nick Vrtis for combining multiple geoWrite documents.  The following is information Bruce supplied in a text file that is included in the archive:

Combiner is a great geoWrite utility written by Nicholas J. Vrtis in 1989 and there are a number of different versions floating around on disk collections and web sites.

As far as I can ascertain, despite their names (COMBINER, Combiner, COMBINER v1.1), they are all the same version:

V1.0 dated 3/4/89 4:03 PM in the file info box.

All of these differing versions also display V1.0 in the title box at the bottom of the screen in the program, and the geos menu / info box says the program is user supported and asks for $5.

There is one version of Combiner that is a true V1.1 but it hasn't been available other than in printed form up to now, to the best of my knowledge.

The August 1989 Volume 9, Issue 6 of Transactor magazine contains an explanatory article by Nicholas on challenges when creating Combiner and the listings to create Combiner V1.1 with geoProgrammer - a GEOS Header file, an Include file, two program Source files, and a Linker file. Sadly, and like V9#5, Transactor did not produce a disk to accompany V9#6.

I scanned and OCR'd the pages from Transactor and converted them to geoWrite format, did some cleanup, and used Paul B. Murdaugh's geoProgrammer 2.1 to build the program. I also modified the program icon to include 1.1 in it.

I don't know what changes may exist in the operation of the program but the geos menu / info box no longer asks for $5 - possibly this version was sold to Transactor. The Info box of any geoWrite files created by Combiner V1.1 now shows:
Author: by: Combiner V1.1
instead of
Author: by: Combiner V1.0 as with previous versions.

enGEOy!
Bruce Thomas
July 24, 2024

Wrong is Write v7.0 by Joe Buckley (AKA Red Storm) is a utility for converting files from other word processors to GEOS format of various types and allows you to switch documents from one GeoWrite format to another.  Another feature of Wrong is Write is changing fonts / styles in a document.  Last but no least, you can also convert a document to and from true ASCII or PET ASCII.  According to geoWorld Issue 21 (Page 15) this would allow you to convert a Postscript file to a GeoWrite file and back again.

See issue geoWorld Issue 15 for a small overview of what Wrong is Write can do in the article "GEOS IN THE LAW OFFICE" By Marshall Kragen.