From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Dec 18 18:43:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11195 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:43:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11185 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:43:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13167; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:42:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from proot) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199812190242.UAA13167@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: WordPerfect for Linux on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19981218205411.C486@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 18, 98 08:54:11 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:42:23 -0600 (CST) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, jcwells@u.washington.edu, FreeBSD-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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). WP was pretty good back then. 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message