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From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: WordPerfect compatibility
Message-ID: <443@stech.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 12:26:23 GMT
References: <2663@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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in article <2663@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, fink@mist.cs.orst.edu (Paul Fink) says:
> 
> In article <2117@bsu-cs.UUCP> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>>In article <2651@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, fink@mist.cs.orst.edu (Paul Fink) writes:
>>> Word Perfect is the most worthless Program for the Mac. It belongs to
>>>the MS-DOS world and that is where it should say!
>>
>>You have obviously not been one of the priviledged to use Word Perfect on the
>>Mac.  It is one of the better programs that I have seen on the Mac.  You should
>>look at it; my guess would be that this is what Word Perfect for the Windows/
>>Presentation Manager environment will look like.  I can only hope.
>>
> I have seen Word Perfect. One of the groups here bought it. We tried it out
> and returned it. We have used Macs since the first days and expect programs
> to follow the basic user interface guide lines.
> 

I've seem Word Perfect for the Mac, and for the Amiga as well.  The only thing
I can think of that would make it the word processor of choice is if you're
in an environment where you need to move word processing documents between
operating systems.  In that case, you'll end up with compatible files, which
means you can leave formatting codes in place.  Since the college where I teach
is largely MS-DOS and totally Word Perfect, a number of people are using the
Amiga version on their machines at home.

However (and this is a big however), the Mac people (a small but growing number)
are not using it.  We use either MacWrite, MS Word, or FullWrite.  There 
seems to be no one who even considers Word Perfect.  It just isn't Mac-ish
enough to make us want to switch.  No one wants a non-WYSIWG word processor
(which is why few use MS Word and most are stuck on MacWrite or FullWrite).

 
Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
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