Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!mimsy!cvl!umabco!lwilson From: lwilson@umabco.UUCP (Lowell G. Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Is there any wordprocessor in unix Summary: Possible to a limited extent? Message-ID: <330@umabco.UUCP> Date: 11 Jul 89 12:59:32 GMT References: <4856@macom1.UUCP> <248@arnor.UUCP> <1044@kuling.UUCP> <8161@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Organization: University of Maryland, IRMD, Baltimore, MD 21201 Lines: 29 In article <8161@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes: > 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... > -- > Rahul Dhesi > UUCP: ...!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi We had a chance to evaluate WordPerfect for Unix and there were some problems in this regard. At that time (last winter) the folks at WP were still working out some terminal definition problems and so we who participated in the evaluation had to use Kermit with a special .ini file which reconfigured all of the function keys so that they would send out the sort of codes you mention above. For evaluation purposes we had no problem with that since all of the testers were users of Kermit anyway. But there are a lot of people on our campus who use Procomm, Reflections (we're a multi-system environment and people tend to stick with the terminal emualation software they use for the system they spend the most time on), and so on and so forth. In fact, that was the reason we decided to pass on the Unix version of WP. Does anyone know if the final release has addressed these problems? There are a LOT of terminals out there, not to mention emulation packages... -- Lowell Wilson : Sinecure III University of Maryland at Baltimore Information Resources Mgt Division UUCP: ...cvl!umabco!lwilson Internet: umabco!lwilson@cvl.umd.edu