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From: tracy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Phil Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 Apps
Message-ID: <3428@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 91 17:23:04 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University
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Well, since someone brought up OS/2 apps in use, here's my $.02

Word Perfect 5.0 is out for OS/2, and DOS users won't be able to tell the
difference between it and its DOS cousin.  Yes, it's character-based, but 
I have heard murmurings about WordPerfect coming out with a real PM app.

SPSS has done what appears to be a VERY nice job on SPSSx for OS/2; I say
appears because I'm not a heavy user--I support mostly beginning SPSS 
users.

Has anyone mentioned Lotus 1-2-3 G?  It looks and feels very nice, although
it's about 3 times slower than Excel.

And well, I hate to admit it at last, but I've grown rather fond of REXX.
Yes, I know, it's not C++, but for a network administrator who has a 
good deal of housekeeping to do on a server, it's a hell of an improvement
over DOS batch files (even with Norton Batch Enhancer).

--
Phillip Tracy
Northwestern University
tracy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu