MacWrite on a DOS PC

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From: Bill.Stewart
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 1988 02:08

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I want a real wordprocessor on my PC.  I want to see different-sized fonts,
with proportional-spaced characters, where what you see is what you want, or
at least is close.

There are lots of powerful, adequately-simple PC and UNIX wordprocessors that
produce monospaced characters, and maybe italic or underline.
That's boring.  Emacs and vi can do that.

There are a few hard-to-use, powerful systems for desk-top publishing.
If I want that, I've already got troff.

I want something at least as good as MacWrite was 3 years ago,
at least as easy to use.  If it can't use a CGA screen, fine.
I'll buy EGA. (though I'd rather use my existing 640x400 AT&T screens.)
I'll even use Microslow Windows, if I have to, though it's a dog on 8086's.

It would be nice if it either can translate to troff, or at least produces
postscript, but if the output format is documented I can work with it.
-- 
#				Thanks;
# Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs

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From: wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,misc.wanted,comp.sys.att
Subject: MacWrite on a DOS PC
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Date: 3 Mar 88 02:08:17 GMT
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