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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!destroyer!ubc-cs!sritchie
- From: sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie)
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect Update (NOT!): No current volume - No NeXT V6.0
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.074425.26180@cs.ubc.ca>
- Sender: usenet@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Jul30.060157.4089@gore.com> <1992Jul30.060915.4165@gore.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 07:44:25 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Jul30.060915.4165@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
- >Well, I do own a copy of WordPerfect, and it's a nice proof of concept.
- >
- >As a product, it stinks. I swear, the program's artificial intelligence. It
- >ARGUES with you! "Nah, you don't really want that graphic to be 3.5"x2.5".
- >Here, I'll make it a nice 3.273"x2.034" for you." "Here, let me move this
- >figure two pages down." Or, my favorite: "You must be tired. Let me make
- >all of the pages blank."
- >
- >Of every hour I use WP, about 40 minutes are used to undo its spontaneous
- >changes. I do "save" every five minutes, and "revert to saved" three minutes
- >after each "save."
- >
- >If 6.0 is another prototype thrown at us, I'm not paying a red cent for the
- >upgrade. As far as I'm concerned, they still owe us a working version. And
- >an apology.
- >
- >Jacob
-
- And you really gotta like how the text bounces up and down as you type.
- I know I'm being especially productive when it can't even keep up with
- my keystrokes. This program is a real dog. Worse yet, it's a mutated
- dog -- nuclear testing going on down in Utah or something? I think
- their Text object has some serious chromosome damage.
-
- I really don't like bashing a program, because I know someone somewhere
- has had to put a lot of work into it. But it seems that everytime I sit
- down with WP, I end up cursing at it.
-
- Whenever I see NeXT advertising how wonderful the apps are, there's
- usually a WP icon floating amongst AI, Improv, Frame, etc. Quick,
- get me a bucket.
-
- Stuart
- (it must be the heat)
-