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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Word Processor Selection
Summary: WP for windows was demoed at comdex
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Date: 26 Nov 90 17:49:14 GMT
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In article <1990Nov25.211633.11216@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> jpl5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Jay P Lessler) writes:
>If you can wait until Spring, Word Perfect for windows is coming out then.

Last week Infoworld and PC world both mentioned the windows version of
WP. I don't remember ship dates, though. It looks somewhat like W4W,
and I believe it also ships with a file manager. I'm a diehard W4W
person myself. I also use Macs a lot, and the combination of MacWord
and W4W is pretty good. I still have problems with binary
compatibility and wish that the graphics would go across, but can work
around most problems. In binary mode, when w4w writes MacWord files,
it can't deal with dynamic links (at least to Excel, which I also
use.) So the info for the dynamic link is not passed across. RTF on
the other hand does carry across the dynamic link info (as a static
link, of course), but not the graphic info.

As an aside, excel uses the same files for windows and the mac, and
transfer between Macs and Windows is easy as pie...

kartik



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