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From: iphwk@TERRA.OSCS.MONTANA.EDU (Bill Kinnersley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Word Processors
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Date: 16 Apr 89 21:18:51 GMT
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[In "Word Processors", Mic Mac said:]
: 
: I would like to know what THE best word
: processor is for the Amiga, and don't say WordPerfect because it is
: not Amigized.  Some basic requirements are: WYSIWYG (WP is not),
: ability to move graphics into it, speller, thesaurus ... 
: 
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: 
Alan, could you explain further what you mean when you say that
WordPerfect is not Amigaized?  True, it doesn't meet your other
requirements (WYSIWYG and graphics).  Maybe I was misled by all
the windows, menus, requesters and so on that they added.  You
can like WordPerfect or not, but it seems to me that within the
constraint of porting an existing and well-known MSDOS program
to a quite different environment, they did a decent job of cap-
turing the Amiga flavor.



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