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From: hartley@uvm-gen.UUCP (Stephen J. Hartley)
Newsgroups: net.text,net.unix
Subject: Re: Re: Use of ``vi'' for business office word-processing
Message-ID: <382@uvm-gen.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 07:58:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 16 07:58:38 1986
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> Keywords: ``vi'' word-processing non-programmers
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> 
> I have been involved in word-processing in the Physics Dept.  Because
> of the math requirements, WYSIWIG's were pretty well excluded, so we
> used eqn, tbl, and troff.  Once the decision to use an embedded-command
> WP system was made, we had to teach our secretaries an editor, and
> found that there was little problem in using "vi".
>
The secretaries at the University of Virginia had no trouble learning basic
Unix, files, vi, tbl, eqn, and troff.