Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mike
From: mike@ames.arpa (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Excellence vs. WordPerfect
Message-ID: <7895@ames.arpa>
Date: 26 Apr 88 19:25:59 GMT
References: <2237@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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In article <2237@louie.udel.EDU> gaspar@almsa-1.arpa (Al Gaspar) writes:
>
>  I have an A500 with 1 MB and an external floppy drive, and I have
>a need for a good word processor.  Has anyone had a chance to look
>at both the WordPerfect and Excellence word processing packages?  If
>so, I'd appreciate your comments.  Thanks.
>

I've been using WP for about 3 months now, and am growing more and more
impatient with it. True, it has some first rate features, but the implementation
under intuition is clumsy, not to mention the fact that it has it's fair 
share of bugs.

It seems as if the guy who did the port had no understanding of intuition
"standards", so things seem just slightly out of kilter. This makes it easy
to mess up when a WP convention violates a more traditional approach.

I would sincerely suggest waiting for Excellence, I'm going to be taking
a good hard look at it when it ships, RSN.







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			   *** mike (Cyberpunk in training) smithwick ***
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