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From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is there any wordprocessor in unix
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Date: 27 Jun 89 05:38:57 GMT
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From David Goodenough:

>From article <7868@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, by mysore@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Swamy Bale):
>> Hi everybody
>> 
>>    Just wondering, is there any word processor utility in UNIX bsd 4.2
>
>Nothing WYSIWYG (thank goodness :-) )
>Try ?roff (nroff, troff, roff, ptroff, glorkroff, ......)
>-- 
>dg@lakart.UUCP - David Goodenough

OK, *roff will *format* most anything I want. But what about a friendly,
near-modeless, full-screen editor? Like WordPerfect, frinstance? And for
that matter, what the hell's wrong with WYSIWYG, other than being a greatly
overworked buzzword? Some of the tools available to PC's and (ick..) MAC's
are not only useful, but powerful. Why should UNIX be denied the same tools?

Dave      dbell@cup.portal.com