Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!dan From: dan@gacvx2.gac.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: imperfections in WordPerfect? Message-ID: <1991Apr30.213226.198@gacvx2.gac.edu> Date: 1 May 91 03:32:26 GMT References: <22853@lanl.gov> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota Lines: 40 In article , cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu writes: > In article <22853@lanl.gov> silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov (SILBAR, RICHARD R.) writes: > I recently got WordPerfect installed, finally. > > and then writes > > I seem > to recall seeing a PC version of WordPerfect that had a very nice > Equation Interface (sort of like Draw with a palette and stuff); there > appears not to be any such thing with the NeXT version. > > Isn't the equation package part of WP 5.1? The WP for the NeXT is > version 5.0. > > -- > "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, > and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." > -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Here is the story as I heard it at a NeXT users group meeting right after WP for the NeXT came out. It is probably partially true. WP for the NeXT is compatable with the 5.0 version on the PC. It has features similar to the 5.0 version and is file compatable with 5.0 and for the most part with 5.1. If a 5.1 file is read by NeXT WP the features that it does not support will be retained in the document but not displayed in editable format, if it can be displayed at all. The missing features return when the document reaches a version of a document that does support it. Version 5.0 introduced a new file format that could be extended without causing problems for older versions. A completely 5.1 compatable version of WP would be released after the work on the other UNIX versions of WP caught up with the current releases on other platforms. We were all told that WP is trying to bring all their platforms to roughly the same point to provide a seemless multi-vendor electronic office. -- Dan Boehlke Internet: dan@gac.edu Campus Network Manager BITNET: dan@gacvax1.bitnet Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN 56082 USA Phone: (507)933-7596