Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:33:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au, jcwells@u.washington.edu, FreeBSD-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect for Linux on FreeBSD Message-ID: <19981219133318.B24125@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812190242.UAA13167@horton.iaces.com>; from Paul T. Root on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 08:42:23PM -0600 References: <19981218205411.C486@freebie.lemis.com> <199812190242.UAA13167@horton.iaces.com>
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On Friday, 18 December 1998 at 20:42:23 -0600, Paul T. Root wrote: >> >> I must do some thinking about what I did with word processors 10 years >> ago. I gave up Word Perfect 4.2 round the time I got my first laser >> printer, because it didn't handle proportional fonts. I briefly tried >> Microsoft Word, which was (even then) the biggest disaster I had ever >> experienced, and then went on to Borland's Sprint (used to be Mark of >> the Unicorn's ``Final Word''). It was so buggy that I ended up trying >> TeX, and the rest is history. > > I remember hating Word 1.0 (and my opinion has never changed). Ditto. > WP was pretty good back then. Modulo the PS problems. > I also had Sprint, I'd forgotten about it. It had multiple > personality front ends, I choose emacs. They never developed it > beyond the first release. I have 1.5. It was only sold in France, and it had a few annoying features, one of which was the incompatible customizing. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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