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From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Subject: Re: Word-processing in Coherent
Message-ID: <1991May27.163227.13727@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
References: <9105231807.aa08466@art-sy.detroit.mi.us> <1991May24.221212.4160@eci386.uucp> <1991May26.022359.28657@bluemoon.uucp>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1991 16:32:27 GMT

In article <1991May26.022359.28657@bluemoon.uucp> loel@bluemoon.uucp (Loel Larzelere) writes:
> woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> >Sounds like a terrific idea... giving up WordPerfect that is.  :-)
> 
> Much as i think Cohernat may have the handle on the next phase
> of office Networking, giving up WP will be the last reason why
> people want a better network.  After all, it is the de facto standard
> in at least the legal community, and who knows how many others.

Ah, but the point I was trying to make is that such de-facto standards
are irrelelvant.  Learning new tools should be a fun and desirable
thing to do, and anyone worth their salt should be able to do such a
switch without too much problem.  The only pre-requisite is an
environment were such changes, and their inevitable but temporary,
reduction in productivity is encouraged.

> >WP is no excuse for being tied down to MuSh-DOeSn't!
> 
> But (unfortunately) a reason for trashing a lot of perfect 
> useable 286's for really unnecessary 386's so you can
> run "real" UNIX and WordPerfect.  (Funny how the UNIZ version
> is available, isn't it?)  

Yes, but if you can run Coherent on your 286's, then what's the
problem with using the tools available with the new environment?
Assuming there are no technical impossibilities with actually using
Coherent troff/nroff to generate ouput on your currently available set
of output devices, then you should be able to the same jobs equally
well, or even better.
-- 
							Greg A. Woods
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