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From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.text
Subject: Re: Word-processing in Coherent
Message-ID: <1991May24.221212.4160@eci386.uucp>
Date: 24 May 91 22:12:12 GMT
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Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
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In article <9105231807.aa08466@art-sy.detroit.mi.us> chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us (j chapman flack) writes:
> This puts them in an excellent position to more-or-less painlessly
> ditch DOS.  However, they would need to do word processing in Coherent.
> Coherent *includes* emacs, vi, and nroff/troff, which might actually be
> better for the kind of structured documents they do (just do up a macro
> package) but, naturally, they're reluctant to give up WordPerfect for it.

Sounds like a terrific idea... giving up WordPerfect that is.  :-)

> So what's out there, free or commercial, in the way of touchy-feely "user
> friendly" word processing that will compile and run on Coherent?

Emacs.  Oh, actually, that depends.  Just what version of "emacs" does
come with Coherent?  If it has reasonable extensibility (that's what
emacs is all about, after all), then just write a compatability
package for emacs that mimics WP (for those users who just can't
understand that learning new things is fun and good mental excercise!).

BTW, what drivers does the troff come with?  C/A/T?  If so, has anyone
ported Chris Lewis' PSROFF to Coherent yet?  PSROFF 2.0 should fit
just nicely (39+24+5 Kb is the size of troff2ps on 386/ix, though I'm
not sure how much malloc'ing it'll do -- hopefully < 40Kb!).

> Is there any hope of a WordPerfect port in the coming year?

Impossible....  until the 64k/64k limit is removed.  The WP people
write big programmes....  really big programmes!

WP is no excuse for being tied down to MuSh-DOeSn't!
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