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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Use of ``vi'' for business office word-processing
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Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 15:06:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 11 15:06:01 1986
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Keywords: ``vi'' word-processing non-programmers

> -- there are some excellent "word-processing" packages such as LEX-11
> available under both UNIX and VMS for machines such as VAXEN...

I don't quarrel with the general assertion, but the example seems dubious.
A group here at U of T evaluated LEX-11 for a while.  Their overall comments
on it were pretty much unprintable.  One thing that was very conspicuous
was that the software was not written with Unix in mind, and the port to
Unix was done very sloppily with no attempt to revise any of the decisions
to match the new environment.  They rejected it vehemently.  Mind you,
quite possibly it has improved since then -- this was several years ago.
"Try before buy."
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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