From: dmw@prism1.prism1.com (David Wright) Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux Date: 30 Sep 1993 13:01:14 GMT
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>>>>> "MAD" == Mark A Davis <mark@taylor.uucp> writes:
MAD> We have over 40 printers in use with over 6 models. We have never had ANY
MAD> printing problems. (Use "Other Spooler", works just fine here for 1 year).
I have to agree. If someone can't get WP to work on their system, THEY
are doing something wrong, NOT WP. We have been using various incarnations of
WP for Unix since the very early 5.0 versions, after using MS Word for Unix
very briefly, and Lyrix 5 & 6 before that. WP is the best WP on just about ANY
platform, as long as what you want to do is WP, *NOT* desktop publishing or
something like that.
I can only WISH that the "normal" system spooler worked as well as the
one in WP. I love being able to tell what is queued up where, what page it is
currently printing, how many more to go, etc.
MAD> (AND AT NO CHARGE). Etc.... My hat goes off to WordPerfect Corp. for being
MAD> a long-term supporter of Unix. Their text version is EXTREMELY stable
MAD> and yes, they are having a few problems with their FIRST X piece of
MAD> software; of which 3/4 of the problems were corrected with the 4/93 release.
Hear Hear. Except that the text version of 5.1 for SCO has some real
bugs with regards to using "view document" (it likes to lock up the
VT beyond recovery, and you can't ALT-Fx to another one), and with the formula
and table creation features (which also use graphics mode). But overall, you
would have a real hard time finding something that gave you ALL the features
you get with WP, with the level of support you get from WP, for the price of
WP.
Most of the time people complain it seems to be from people who don't
like WP at all anyway, but are forced to use it for office-political reasons.
Dave
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