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From: ktly@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
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Subject: Re: WordPerfect dumps Amiga
Summary: Therein lies the problem.
Keywords: WordPerfect
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Date: 4 May 89 11:55:43 GMT
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Reply-To: ktly@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Jonathan C. Kagle)
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In article <788@helios.toronto.edu> dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley) writes:
>It's just as well.  I have played with a pirated copy of WordPerfect.
>That's right, a pirate.  It didn't take too terribly long before I
>bought a copy of ProWrite and formatted those disks. [...]

	Unfortunately this is the first experience with WP for many Amiga
users.  Most of the pirated copies that I have seen have been from the very
earliest releases of WordPerfect, which were admittedly full of bugs.  The
newest update has many improvements over the first release, as well as the
elimination of dozens of bugs.  People who use pirated copies of WordPerfect
also do not have the benefit of the WordPerfect manual or support staff,
both of which are considered to be among the best in the Amiga community.

	WordPerfect is not the flashiest of word processors.  It doesn't 
support fancy fonts or IFF pictures.  It doesn't include a grammar checker
or a check-as-you-type spelling checker.  It does, however, provide a quick,
stable, and powerful environment for serious word processing, with an Amiga-
standard (where standards exist) user interface and good support of multi-
tasking. 

	     -Jonathan

[The above opinions are not necessarily those of Cornell University or 
 WordPerfect Corporation, though I am affiliated with both.]