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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga word processors
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Date: 17 Jan 90 08:35:51 GMT
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I noticed you neglected to mention WordPerfect.  I have WP and it
is a solid program.  The latest version is 4.11 and the 'street'
price has come down to the reasonable level.  Now this is a port
from the IBM so it doesn't have all the fancy gadgetry that some
of the Amiga produced programs have.  But then you want a word
processor not a graphics program, right?  I have used word 4.00
on an IBM-XT and I am not impressed with it.  It isn't super and
my Amiga version of WordPerfect is similar in performance.  For
really big jobs and for elaborate sord smithing, I use Memacs and
Proff anyway since Memacs has better text handling and proff 
allows me to format the text *my* way.  Plus Memacs is very fast
with large files (how about 5 seconds to do a global search/replace
of 1 character on each of 1800 lines?).

So if you want a solid wordprocessor for your Amiga, WordPerfect
is a good way to go.  It doesn't have anything to prove since it
is number one in the IBM market.

Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com