From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) Subject: Re: Linux - the future? Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 20:37:46 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.
>: Lot's of program editors, but no Word Processors. I haven't seen a unix
>: SQL freebie either. dbz and gdb are, well, ... good for what they were
>: designed for.
>
>Depends what you mean by 'decent' - TeX is probably the best text
>processing software I have ever seen and it has been freely available
You haven't seen much then. Maybe you should wander around in the mall
now and again.
BTW I have the TeX book. Hehehehe. Yea, show that to my wife, right.
>on most Unix platforms for a long time. Troff/nroff is not bad either
>and PD versions like mroff have been available for some time.
Look, I cut my teeth with TECO and runoff. Used Pie & TEXT on my CP/M
box, and as a result can even get around in roff. But I wouldn't ask my
wife to try and run it, or anyone else either. That is not a "Word
Processor" it is manual Word processing! Their is a *BIG* difference.
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