Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!35002_3025
From: 35002_3025@uwovax.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Wordperfect for the ST
Message-ID: <4732.25b6319e@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 19 Jan 90 02:14:06 GMT
References: <1969@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca>
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In article <1969@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca>, depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST) writes:
> If I knew that such a version was at least IN THE WORKS at Atari
> Development I would gobble up this ST version instantly, especially
> since I am such an ST patriot.. Does anyone have any news from the
> company?
> 
> -- 
> S. Alan Ezust                                   depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca
> McGill University School of Computer Science -  Montreal, Quebec, Canada
>     If pro is the opposite of con, what's the opposite of progress?

Indications that I have been given from a friend whose relative works for
Word Perfect are that we will not see a version of 5.0 for the ST.  I would
not hold my breath in view of the long time it took to first get a reasonable
version of WP, and then to get a 'bug-free' version.

-- 
Kevin-john Conway
...a librarian from hell...

School of Library and Information Science
University of Western Ontario
London Canada
"...deviants from the norm..."

"My ideas may be silly, but I'm not.  I'm positively skewed!"

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