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From: lar@inuxc.UUCP (L Reid)
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Subject: Re: Use of ``vi'' for business office word-processing
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Date: Mon, 8-Sep-86 09:52:28 EDT
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> ... so, tell me, what are the ADVANTAGES of word-processing
> software (like Lyric, Wordstar, etc.) over the standard UNIX editing/formatting
I, too, prefer vi and nroff/troff over "true" word processing packages.
But, our secretaries/clerks, when exposed to the other packages
preferred them.

Although flexible, nroff/troff is not easy to learn for non-technical
people.  I know managers who prefer other WP software to nroff/troff.

Laura Reid

(Sorry, but my last posting of this got real garbles somehow.  GREMLINS!)