From: Tim Pierce (twpierce@unix.amherst.edu)
Date: 10/31/92


From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: Linux - the future?
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 05:47:44 GMT

In article <1cv4nbINNn7v@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk writes:

>Keith Smith (keith@ksmith.uucp) wrote:
>
>: I haven't even seen a decent "Word Processing" program freebie for Unix.
>
>Depends what you mean by 'decent' - TeX is probably the best text
>processing software I have ever seen and it has been freely available
>on most Unix platforms for a long time.

Powerful? Yes. Flexible? Yes. Extensible? Yes. Learning curve?
What learning curve? That's a learning *cliff*.

>Troff/nroff is not bad either
>and PD versions like mroff have been available for some time.

Where can I get such a thing? Getting groff going has been one of my
worst nightmares.

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