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From: scott@geowhiz.UUCP (Scott Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Text editors
Message-ID: <627@geowhiz.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 20:40:23 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@geowhiz.UUCP (Scott Kempf)
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In article <1356@netmbx.UUCP> blume@netmbx.UUCP (Heiko Blume) writes:
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>in fact word perfect for the apple //e & //c is a port of the pc version.

I know I am being picky, but WordPerfect has not been "ported" for the pc.
WordPerfect is written in machine language, allowing it to use a computer
very efficently.  It is really imposible to port a program from 8088 to 6502.
They had to start pretty much from scratch.

>it is possible to 'print' to a ascii file (including all printer cmds) or
>save the (wp)file as a ascii file to disk by pressing <closed-apple><=><4>
>hope thats enough info.
>
>greetings
>
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