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From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Microsoft Word for the ST
Message-ID: <148@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 19:19:03 GMT
References: <8802072043.AA15363@orville.nas.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <8802072043.AA15363@orville.nas.nasa.gov> rowley@ORVILLE.NAS.NASA.GOV (Karl Rowley) writes:
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>
>The package comes with GDOS, and a device driver and fonts for the Atari
>dot matrix printer.  Included is a set-up program for GDOS.  It appeared
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>The GDOS document and utility programs look good.  Atari should consider
>selling the GDOS programs and documents separately from the Microsoft Word
>package.  
>
Fat chance of that happening, over the period of the last two years Atari
has simply refused to make GDOS available as a seperate product, delibertley
crippling the ST as a result. As far as I know the only way to get a copy
without buying a software package is to buy an Atari laser printer :-/.

			Simon Poole
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