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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Word-processing in Coherent
Message-ID: <9105251608.10@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 91 01:07:00 GMT
References: <9105231807.aa08466@art-sy.detroit.mi.us>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In article <9105231807.aa08466@art-sy.detroit.mi.us> chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us (j chapman flack) writes:
>I've a client whose future needs coincide well with Coherent.
>They currently use DOS, only for word processing, and have absolutely
>no investment in DOS applications except for one copy of WordPerfect.
>
>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.
>
>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?

Somewhere out there in Freeware land is a Wordstar clone for UNIX.  I can't
remember the name.  I also saw the sources pass through the net.  And of
course, I didn't grab them.  I'm still kicking myself.

If I could find it again, I would port it, and try to get MWC to at least
give it passive support.

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

This would be great.

>btw, when is the 386/vm Coherent expected?

From what I have seen, 1992.

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP