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- From: ilan@sn.no (Ilan Sharoni)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Word Perfect
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 07:00:51 +0200
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <4kcqu3$rev@sinsen.sn.no>
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- On 05-Apr-96 00:32:22, Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv@xs4all.nl) Wrote:
- >In article <eraugust-0204961648210001@sbdsk0838.sbrc.hac.com>
- >eraugust@igate1.hac.com (Eric R. Augustine) writes:
- >>
- >> I noticed that someone was selling an A3000 in another amiga group.
- >> Listed with the standard software was "Word Perfect". Is this the
- >> same Word Perfect that runs on PC's and Mac's? Are the files it
- >> then produces in the same format? And - where does one get it and
- >> how much is it?
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- >Amiga WordPerfect (final version 4.1.12) is based on the UNIX version. It
- >uses the same format as WP 4.2 on the PC, except for the end-of-line
- >sequences. There are import/export options for IBM WP 4.2 as well as for
- >plain ASCII. Note that you may experience some difficulties exchanging files
- >with WP 5 or later due to bugs in the PC version's conversion routines.
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- I installed WP 5.0 and got it working with PCTask2. It works just as
- well (and looks just as ugly) as if it was on a PC.
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- ilan
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