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From: bill@wgc386.mv.com (William Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: wordperfect as editor
Keywords: editor
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.105210.8865@wgc386.mv.com>
Date: 5 Sep 90 10:52:10 GMT
References: <288@fdls.odag.or.gov> <524@oss670.UUCP>
Organization: William Gibbs Consulting
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In <524@oss670.UUCP> tkevans@oss670.UUCP (Tim Evans) writes:

>In <288@fdls.odag.or.gov> jeff@fdls.odag.or.gov (Jeff Hyatt) writes:

>>Has anyone used WordPerfect as an editor for elm?  If so, would you let me
>>know about your successes and/or failures.  I would like users to be able to
>>draft e-mail with a minimum of fuss.

>One of the great things about 'elm' is that you can use any editor you
>have on your system to compose messages.  The trade-off is the speed with
>which it loads, works, etc.  I tried using my full-featured word processor
>(Crystal Writer) on my '286 UNIX box, but found that the time to load 
> [Stuff deleted]

I have a client that is using WordPerfect as an editor for elm.  The
major problem seems to be getting people to remember to save the file as
a UNIX text file and not as a WordPerfect file.  Also, there are complaints
about how slowly WP starts up.  What Elm needs is a nice, easy to use,
basic editor.

Bill

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