Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!eci386!clewis
From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is there any wordprocessor in unix
Message-ID: <1989Jul11.192542.13711@eci386.uucp>
Date: 11 Jul 89 19:25:42 GMT
References: <4856@macom1.UUCP> <248@arnor.UUCP>
Reply-To: clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc.
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In article <248@arnor.UUCP> uri@arnor.UUCP (Uri Blumenthal) writes:
>From article <4856@macom1.UUCP>, by larry@macom1.UUCP (Larry Taborek):
>> From article <7868@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, by mysore@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Swamy Bale):
>>>    Just wondering, is there any word processor utility in UNIX bsd 4.2

>> Yes, its called 'vi'.

>Great. And it has all those fancy fonts, it can format the text in 
>two columns and make a lot of other things usual WP's do? Or you'll
>tell that I need also troff, fonts for it (who knows where from),
>special previewer and so on?

a) depends on what you mean by "usual WP's".  The most popular so-called 
   WP's (eg: wordstar, msword, wordperfect, etc.) don't have "fancy
   fonts".  They can lay out Courier fonts okay, but have very
   limited capabilities with proportional - especially with multiple
   point sizes.
b) BSD is bundled with nroff, troff, tbl, eqn, and various printer
   support depending on the version of BSD (versatec fonts,ditroff etc. etc.)
   And is either available or already bundled in almost every other version 
   of *nix.  What's the problem?
c) Documents are portable across many machines (try printing
   a wordperfect document on an IBM mainframe!).  And there are several
   companies with extensions.
   
Bundled with DOS you only get EDLIN. 
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