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- From: kzin@terminus.gatech.edu (John Rudd)
- Subject: Re: Alternatives to FrameMaker
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- References: <1992Nov7.002416.26691@Thalatta.COM> <1992Nov7.184250.4613@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Nov14.031018.11000@uhura1.uucp> <1992Nov16.032553.3507@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:57:27 GMT
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- >(Richard Warner) writes:
- >>>If you want a word processor, you can get [MS] Word (yuck!)
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- >In article <1992Nov14.031018.11000@uhura1.uucp> bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net
- >(whose name, I believe, is Bryan Curnutt) writes:
- >>Not on a Sun. Microsoft doesn't sell Word for Suns.
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- (Paul Chisholm) writes:
- >No, but WordPerfect(R) sells WP for Suns (and other UNIX(R)-based
- >systems). They now sell WP for UNIX 5.1, which is about as WYSIWYG as
- >WP for [MS] Windows. WP is *not* FrameMaker(R); in particular, it has
- >no drawing tools. (Unless some were added for WP/UNIX 5.1.)
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- You can also get Island Write/Draw/Paint. Suppsedly very nice. The
- 3 sections are apparently very well integrated. The package has won
- awards and stuff. And it's $895 per node (i'm not sure what kind of
- license restrictions/options are available).
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- John
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