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- From: vesely@next.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Ivan Vesely)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect (YES!)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.164425.6048@julian.uwo.ca>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 16:44:25 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.060915.4165@gore.com>
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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.
- >
- > 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.
-
- I am really getting tired of everybody and his uncle bitching about how useless
- WordPerfect is. Sure, it has its flaws, it's not a slick NeXT application, but
- it does it's job. There are a few slick NeXt applications out there that DON'T
- do their job. I bought my copy of WordPerfect for the NeXT two years ago, and
- I've loved it ever since. It launches fast, it handles graphics way better
- than Write Now, it's got all the nice features of WP for the PC (except
- equations), and when you're done typing your stuff, you give the floppy to the
- secretary and she does the revisions for you on her PC. What other application
- allows you to do that? On top of that, you pay for one copy and you're
- licensed to use it on several machines. I sure got my money's worth when I
- bought WP, and I'm going to buy the next version when it comes out!
-
- Come on, somebody out there besides me must like WordPerfect?
-
- --
- Ivan Vesely, Electrical Engineering and Medical Biophysics
- University of Western Ontario, vesely@next.heart.rri.uwo.ca
-