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From: boyd@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 1st Word Plus
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.041723.1996@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 90 04:17:23 GMT
References: <2200@cybaswan.UUCP> <5440138@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
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In article <5440138@hplsla.HP.COM>, andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) writes:
>iiitih@cybaswan.UUCP (Ivan Izikowitz) asks:
>
>| Does anyone know which public domain server has a copy of
>| "1st Word Plus" ?
>| 
>| Is it indeed PD software?
>| ----------
>
>First Word Plus IS NOT PD!

This is absolutely true, but I am wondering if this person was really referring
to First Word (the one that used to come with ST's).  I am unsure if it is 
PD, but I would think that you could obtain a copy somehow (perhaps from ATARI).
Also, there is an excellent PD word processor called STWRITER that has gone 
through many versions (the present one is rock solid).  I do not know if it 
is available from atari.archive, but I know that the Current Notes PD library
has it (and will update to any newer versions for free).  Email me if you 
would like the mailing address for CN.

I am in no way connected blah blah blah . . 

The First Word that came with the ST's was version 1.0 of the product you 
refer to (1st Word Plus).  I understand that 1st Word Plus is a really good 
product, well supported.  Now that Neocept is history, I just may invest my 
word processing dollars in this program, since the company is based in 
britain (and therefore has a chance to survive as an ST developer!!).  If 
anyone has this guy, a review would be great!!


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