From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Dec 18 19:03:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA13303 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:03:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13291 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:03:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA19101; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:33:20 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA24187; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:33:19 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981219133318.B24125@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:33:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Paul T. Root" Cc: mike@smith.net.au, jcwells@u.washington.edu, FreeBSD-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect for Linux on FreeBSD References: <19981218205411.C486@freebie.lemis.com> <199812190242.UAA13167@horton.iaces.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199812190242.UAA13167@horton.iaces.com>; from Paul T. Root on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 08:42:23PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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