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Re: Arabic Wordprocessing / Publishing Software wanted

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From: Pat Hirayama
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1987 10:31
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in article <120@wjh12.harvard.edu>, 
  dow@wjh12.harvard.edu (Dominik Wujastyk) says:
> In article <465@rocksanne.UUCP> lee@rocksanne.UUCP (Lee Moore) writes:
>>In article <1908@ho95e.ATT.COM>, wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart) writes:
>>> A friend of mine is looking for a computer system that will let him do
>>> word-processing in Arabic and English, as well as miscellaneous ...
> 
> IBM do an Arabic version of their main word processor DisplayWrite.  I am

Alternate solution is the Apple Macintosh (YES, I know that this is 
 comp.sys.ibm.pc, but it is still a solution).

I have seen an Arabic language word-processing program for the Mac.  Unfortu-
nately, I cannot remmember the name of it.  I shall ask a friend of mine
what it was, if I remember.

BTW, it also handles English and Farsi.

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From: hirayama@suvax1.UUCP (Pat Hirayama)
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Subject: Re: Arabic Wordprocessing / Publishing Software wanted
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Date: 20 Dec 87 10:31:48 GMT
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