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From: iho@cac.washington.edu (Il Oh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari word processors
Keywords: wordprocessor, wp, 1st word
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Date: 18 Oct 90 08:04:52 GMT
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In article <1990Oct18.013304.8034@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> jahromib@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Babak Jahromi) writes:
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>sophistication of wp 4.2 for the ibm?? Doesn't ANY company feel there's money
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>to be made writing a decent word processor instead of the crap out there 
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In a word, "no".

>already (1st word, wordwriter, and others that don't even know what the concept

Let's not forget the ST version of WordPerfect in that list of crap.

>of a tab is and have the worst printer support possible, even 1st word..)
>What wouldn't I do for a st version of wp (please, with NO windows, NO gem,
>just nice, fast text mode)! But I guess this is a pipe dream...

The best word processing option I've been able to come up with is using
MS Word under GCR.


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