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From: daw@houxs.ATT.COM (David Wolverton)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Writer's Workbench
Keywords: Grammar, Text analysis, Linguistic analysis
Message-ID: <1131@houxs.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 89 17:54:21 GMT
References: <2417@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> <250@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <250@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>, stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes:
> 
> I called AT&T licensing just last week, and they still won't release
> the source code for WWB.  Apparently it's a dead product, so all
> we have is the style and diction package that comes with 4.3 BSD
> (which must be 8 years old by now).
> 
> Does AT&T support WWB in binary on any AT&T systems (such as the
> 3b2) ?
> 
> 	Richard Stevens
> 	Health Systems International, New Haven, CT
> 	   stevens@hsi.com
>            ... { uunet | yale } ! hsi ! stevens

The problem may be that you specified "WWB".  There is a newer diction, etc.
package out (can't remember the name though) that received some good press
when used in some high school or college remedial English classes.
Probably it has a new/different name, which is why the person you contacted
didn't make the connection.  All I know about it is what I remember from
reading about it in an internal newsletter over a year ago [i.e. precious
little].

If someone else doesn't follow up with more specifics, send me a reminder
and I'll chase down the specifics for you.

Dave Wolverton
...!att!houxs!daw or daw@houxs.ATT.COM