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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is there any wordprocessor in unix
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Date: 10 Jul 89 20:55:50 GMT
References: <4856@macom1.UUCP> <248@arnor.UUCP> <1044@kuling.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <1044@kuling.UUCP> irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide') writes:
>We bought the UNIX release of 'WordPerfect' for one of our HP9000/300
>boxes running HP-UX.  It's really the 4.2 version but it utilizes the
>fact that it runs in a UNIX environment and therefore has extra capabilities
>compared to the PC version (up to 9 -sic- documents at the same time, a
>few 'vi'-isms thrown in etc.)

I have a couple of complaints about these statements.

Minor nit:  Up to 9 documents at the same time is easily achievable
under MS-DOS.  I do it all the time with BRIEF, and even the small,
QEDIT lets me edit multiple files.  If WordPerfect doesn't do it under
MS-DOS, it is WordPerfect's fault, not MS-DOS's fault.

Major nit:  It is theoretically *impossible* for a general terminal-
independent version of WordPerfect to exist under UNIX.  After
extensive research I have determined that WordPerfect *cannot exist*
unless you have all or most of F1..F10, Ctrl-F1..Ctrl-F10,
Alt-F1..Alt-F10, and Shift-F1..Shift-F10 keys available.  Since most
terminals used for UNIX do not have such keys at all, the conclusion
follows.  What you used under UNIX may have been called WordPerfect,
but it was something else.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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