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- From: bryan@uhura1.uucp (Bryan Curnutt)
- Subject: Re: Alternatives to FrameMaker
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.025448.6320@uhura1.uucp>
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- Organization: Stoner Associates, Inc./DREM Incorporated, Houston Texas
- References: <1992Nov7.184250.4613@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Nov14.031018.11000@uhura1.uucp> <1992Nov16.032553.3507@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:54:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.032553.3507@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> psrc@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
- >>>If you want a word processor, you can get [MS] Word (yuck!)
- >>Not on a Sun. Microsoft doesn't sell Word for Suns.
- >
- >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.
-
- Don't want to start the "WordPerfect is awful" thread all over again,
- but do want to warn anyone seeing the above: Thoroughly evaluate
- WordPerfect before you buy it. (Actually, this should be done for
- all software, but most particularly software that has a bad reputation,
- which WP for UNIX does.) Particularly evaluate printing from both
- local and remote systems, and terminal support, and what a user can do
- to quit from WP if s/he starts it using the wrong WPTERM, and whether
- you routinely need to reboot the UNIX system or even just make sure
- that no one on the network is using WordPerfect before killing the
- license/print manager when problems arise (which they will).
-
- I haven't seen 5.1, but we have WordPerfect 5.0 for Suns, and WP 5.0
- is the reason we're looking for a different word processing package.
- --
- Bryan Curnutt, Systems Administrator, Stoner Associates, Inc.
- bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net
- Any opinions above are mine, not SAI's.
-