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From: strovink@ssc.afit.arpa (Mark Strovink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: WordPerfect
Message-ID: <179@ssc.afit.arpa>
Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 14:10:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: ssc.179
Posted: Mon Aug 17 14:10:59 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Aug-87 05:19:28 EDT
Reply-To: strovink@afit-ab.arpa (Mark Strovink)
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH
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Taking advantage of the educational discount for WordPerfect ($99), I
calmed my wife about the poor performance of Amiga wordprocessors.

As a word processor, WordPerfect is excellent.  I am not at all
tempted to use it for programming though.

WordPerfect expects its libraries to be in LIBS:.  It offers no way to
change this.  So you: A) boot the WP disk, or B) assign LIBS: WP:libs,
or C) make room for the libs on you workbench disk (HAH!).  Or you can
buy a harddisk.

WP DOES keep up with my wife's typing.

Polly (my wife) uses WordPerfect on an AT at work.  She is not sure
she approves of the pop-up windows in the Amiga version covering her
text (on the PeCe the menu is a strip at the bottom).  I would not
mind if WP gave you front/back gadgets on the popups (it don't).  If
you want a laugh, watch me multi-task with a WP popup in the way!

My overall impression of WordPerfect for the Amiga so far ->  it has
the heart of WordPerfect, but lacks the soul of the Amiga.

We think it is a very good wordprocessor and look forward to it
evolving into a true amiga wordprocessor (maybe even a document
processor?).

Mark Strovink               (strovink@afit-ab.arpa)