Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:42:23 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, jcwells@u.washington.edu, FreeBSD-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect for Linux on FreeBSD Message-ID: <199812190242.UAA13167@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <19981218205411.C486@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 18, 98 08:54:11 pm"
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> > 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
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