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- From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
- Subject: Re: Alternatives to FrameMaker
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.170209.2213@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
- Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
- References: <1992Nov7.184250.4613@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Nov14.031018.11000@uhura1.uucp> <1992Nov16.032553.3507@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1992Nov18.025448.6320@uhura1.uucp>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:02:09 GMT
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- bryan@uhura1.uucp (Bryan Curnutt) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Look before you speak. 5.1 is virtually a complete re-write from 5.0.
- It comes in two flavors, but the most useful is an X version - no need
- to worry about WPTERM, etc. - > it uses pure X for the display (none
- of this Open Look only or Motif only stuff).
-
- >Bryan Curnutt, Systems Administrator, Stoner Associates, Inc.
- >bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net
- >Any opinions above are mine, not SAI's.
-