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In article <1992Nov16.032553.3507@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> psrc@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
>>>If you want a word processor, you can get [MS] Word (yuck!)
>>Not on a Sun.  Microsoft doesn't sell Word for Suns.
>
>No, but WordPerfect(R) sells WP for Suns (and other UNIX(R)-based
>systems).  They now sell WP for UNIX 5.1, which is about as WYSIWYG as
>WP for [MS] Windows.

Don't want to start the "WordPerfect is awful" thread all over again,
but do want to warn anyone seeing the above:  Thoroughly evaluate
WordPerfect before you buy it.  (Actually, this should be done for
all software, but most particularly software that has a bad reputation,
which WP for UNIX does.)  Particularly evaluate printing from both
local and remote systems, and terminal support, and what a user can do
to quit from WP if s/he starts it using the wrong WPTERM, and whether
you routinely need to reboot the UNIX system or even just make sure
that no one on the network is using WordPerfect before killing the
license/print manager when problems arise (which they will).

I haven't seen 5.1, but we have WordPerfect 5.0 for Suns, and WP 5.0
is the reason we're looking for a different word processing package.
-- 
Bryan Curnutt, Systems Administrator, Stoner Associates, Inc.
bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net
Any opinions above are mine, not SAI's.