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From: bbs@nebulus.UUCP (Unix Access Bulletin Bord)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is there any wordprocessor in unix
Summary: Wait a minute...
Message-ID: <926@nebulus.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 89 13:14:22 GMT
References: <7868@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <590@lakart.UUCP> <19907@cup.portal.com> <1989Jun28.044952.7861@ctr.columbia.edu>
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In article <1989Jun28.044952.7861@ctr.columbia.edu>, seth@ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson) writes:
> In article <19907@cup.portal.com> dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell) writes:
> >From David Goodenough:
> >>> Hi everybody
> >>>    Just wondering, is there any word processor utility in UNIX bsd 4.2
> >>
> >>Nothing WYSIWYG (thank goodness :-) )
> 
> 
> The actual reason why there are no WordPerfect-like (or WYSIWYG-like)
> editors on BSD or SV or SunOS is because ASCII terminals can't do
> graphics (like fonts or scaling or most anything).
> 

Am I missing something?  I was under the impression that Word Perfect was
available for UNIX systems (System V anyways).  Also, there are a number
of other packages commercially available that allow full screen word processor
type functions.  Crystalwriter is one, and I think MS Word is even available
for UNIX (Again, System V, I don't know what's available for BSD)

While it's true that ASCII Terminals cant do graphics like a PC, they can do
the basic ANSI graphics set (Most of the common terminals anyway) and 
that is really all that is necessary for a word processing package.  Doing 
things like fonts and scaling as such is more a Desktop Publishing 
application, but that's another story (Sigh).

There may even be Desktop Publishing packages available for specific terminal
types available, I don't know...

Regards,
Richard Meesters