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From: dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com (David E. Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 23 Feb 1997 02:51:34 GMT
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On Sat, 22 Feb 1997 14:42:53 GMT, Raymond N Shwake <rshwake@rsxtech.atww.org> wrote:
> By '87, when I bought my first serious ('286) PC, I picked up a
>copy of Word Perfect 4.2, at the time the recommended DOS WP package. I
>got so fed up with what I could *not* do - and that was so easy with vi -
>that I nearly tossed it in the trash.
About the same time I found Wordperfect too. I liked it tremendously. Up
until then I was playing with various (shareware, mostly) word
processors.
But that reflects the biggest argument against word processors, and
it comes up every so often. Word processors by nature have to
include the editing and processing parts both, and you're at the
mercy of whatever interface & functionality the developer likes. With
markup, you can choose your own editing engine. Besides, 95% of
word processing is text editing anyways.
Speaking of these early things, does anyone recall a DOS wordprocessor
called New York Word? It surfaced around 1986 or so and I used it
briefly. It looked much like a DOS port of a Unix wordprocessor. It
also had regular expression search/replace (the only WP I know of
to have that feature.)
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