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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: looking for a PD / shareware easy-to-use word processor
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.231725.14056@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 6 Jan 91 04:17:25 GMT
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Please respond via e-mail since I don't read these groups.

Does anybody know of any PD / shareware word processors that are nice,
menu driven, easy-to-use that are available via anonymous ftp, BBSs,
CompuServe, or anywhere else?  I have an old Amiga 500 that my mother
wants to use for word processing.  She's not very technical.  (That
qualifies for the understatement of the month award.)  Up to now she's
been using Pocket Writer / Paperback Writer on the Commodore 64.  She's
also quite comfortable now with Deluxe Paint II, and would like to
"step up" to a nice, menu-driven word processor on the Amiga.  It
doesn't have to be fancy.  Just basic text with underlining, italics,
boldface, super- and subscripts, and definitely WYSIWYG.  Essentially I
want what the Workbench 1.3 Notepad program has, but no silly 163 line
limit and a bit faster than it's dismal speed when near full with
text.  And support for basic 9-pin Epson compatible printers is a must
as well.

I've already done a quick look through wuarchive.wustl.edu, which is
the single biggest FTP archive I know of, but there's so much stuff
it's overwhelming.  And compuserve doesn't have very good search
facilities either.

Thanks in advance for any pointers via e-mail.

-- 
"Dad, what should I be when I grow up?"
"Honest." -- Robert M. Pirsig, _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence_.

Wayne Hayes	INTERNET: wayne@csri.utoronto.ca	CompuServe: 72401,3525