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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 1997 21:38:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
Cc:        zaphod@imailbox.com, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DELETING WINDOWS 95, Please Help
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971215213702.3318F-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <349602F0.AB752703@xmission.com>

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On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Wes Peters wrote:

> jtkipp@students.wisc.edu replied:
> > Wow! I never knew it had half of those features! I ran WP 5.1 on a
> > 286/8/640k the only catch was if you typed to fast, the computer would get
> > behind when you reached the end of a line... and saving and searching were
> > painfully slow... I love WP 5.1, Is the source available? No, I thought
> > not... Even a look-a-like with the same features for FreeBSD would be
> > really cool.
> 
> There is a version of WP6.0 (The X/Motif version) for Caldera Linux;
> will it run under emulation on FreeBSD?  I think a trial version 
> comes on the OpenLinux Lite CD, which Caldera gives away like popcorn
> at trade shows.  I've got two or three, if you don't have one I can
> send you one.  ;^)

I'm talking 5.1.  WP6 and 7 both are really much worse IMO.  Although for
a GUI word processor, they're fairly nice, but I still like the quickness
and smallness (fits in less than 5 megs) of 5.1 for DOS.  Is that touted
SCO version text or GUI?

- alex




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