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Re: Word Perfect 5.1 question -- running headers/footers

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 1990 20:42
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In article <345@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) writes:
> Hey Peter, just 'cause WP doesn't do something that any word processor
> in its right mind aught to do is no reason to slam the entire evolution
> of word processing.

Sure it is. Next time it will be something else. Basically, a procedural
language is more versatile than a strictly table-driven formatter. And
of course it's harder to use. You gets what you pay (in terms of learning
time, in this case) for.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
+1 713 274 5180.   'U`
peter@ferranti.com
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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Word Perfect 5.1 question -- running headers/footers
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Date: 9 Oct 90 20:42:31 GMT
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