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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!warwick!bsmail!miki!roome From: roome@miki (Steve Roome) Subject: Re: Word processor type application for freebsd/xwin Message-ID: <Dr0Lqx.Kox@uns.bris.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@uns.bris.ac.uk (Usenet news owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: miki.cs.bris.ac.uk Organization: Bristol University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <eng-sc.831390815@reef.cs.jcu.edu.au> <4mlnq8$knq@fnnews.fnal.gov> Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 03:01:45 GMT Lines: 24 Ken Stox (stox@dcdkc.fnal.gov) wrote: : In article <eng-sc.831390815@reef.cs.jcu.edu.au>, : eng-sc@jcu.edu.au (Simon Coggins) writes: : > : >Anyone know of a program thats good for doing word processing on ? (sort of : >like Word perfect but for bsd/xwin) I know you can get wp for unix but it's : >masive and expensive. : > : >I just need it to do assignments on.. Any ideas ? : Have you seen nedit ? Available at better ftp sites everywhere. I beleive : that a precompiled binary exists in the packages collection. Sod that, use (x)emacs, at least your'e gonna get a reasonable spellchecker. Besides.. who needs wysiwyg editors, has anyone seens one of these that wasn't fundamentally rubbish ?? Steve. -- ,-------------------------------------------------------------, | Stephen Roome | roome@cs.bris.ac.uk | | Bristol, UK. | http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~roome/ | '-------------------------------------------------------------'