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bryan@uhura1.uucp (Bryan Curnutt) writes:

>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.

Look before you speak.  5.1 is virtually a complete re-write from 5.0. 
It comes in two flavors, but the most useful is an X version - no need
to worry about WPTERM, etc. - > it uses pure X for the display (none
of this Open Look only or Motif only stuff).

>Bryan Curnutt, Systems Administrator, Stoner Associates, Inc.
>bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net
>Any opinions above are mine, not SAI's.