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From: iho@cac.washington.edu (Il Oh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: WordPerfect update - STe support
Message-ID: <1991May9.002946.2904@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 00:29:46 GMT
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vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) writes:
> Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>> iho@akbar.cac.washington.edu (Il Oh) writes:
>>> larock@software.software.org (Curt Larock) writes:
>>> >I just got the latest WordPerfect update, dated April 18, 1991.
>>> >According to the release notes WP now supports the STe (TT support
>>> >was in the December release).  There are also some minor bug fixes.

>>> Do they still have no plans to port 5.0 (or 5.1)?  Until they do, I'll
>>> happily use MS Word under Spectre GCR.  I bought a copy of WP for Atari,
>>> WP 5.1 for DOS, and MS Word for Mac.  I just use the one that works well.

>>Well from what I have just read in Znet or was it ST-Report, that
>>WordPerfect has droped Atari all together...

>I just called WordPerfect.  They're shipping the April Upgrade.  They're
>NOT quitting the Atari market, at least not in the U.S.

It's still that brain-damaged 4.1, isn't it?  WordPerfect 5.0 was a
quantum leap forward for them.  As far as I'm concerned, anything prior
to that is not fully usable.
--
 "I'm sorry.                            |    Il Hwan Oh
  If you were right,                    |    University of Washington, Tacoma
  I would agree with you."              |    iho@cac.washington.edu
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