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- From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey)
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect on 386BSD?
- In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of Sat, 9 Jan 93 21:42:55 GMT
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- Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
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- References: <93010913477@erato.iowa-city.ia.us> <1993Jan9.214255.26478@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:38:44 GMT
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- >>>>> In article <1993Jan9.214255.26478@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
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- Terry> In article <93010913477@erato.iowa-city.ia.us> jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us (John D. Boggs) writes:
- >I want to be able to run WordPerfect on a unix box at home, and the good
- >folks at WordPerfect Corporation have apparently never heard of 386BSD.
- >So, is 386BSD binary compatible with the commercial flavor of Unix (what
- >is that, system 5?) Has anyone got WordPerfect running on 386BSD?
-
- [useful answers about binary compatibility...]
-
- Terry> If you have X going, there has been a lot of recent work on the WYSIWYG
- Terry> editor that comes with InterViews(sp?), and that may be your best bet
- Terry> (unless you didn't want an editor to edit, but just to have WP).
-
- Yes, 'doc' is intended for many of the same purposes as WP. The binary
- distribution and patches are on agate.berkeley.edu (128.32.136.1) in
- pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/x-apps/InterViews and README-iv3.1-386bsd has
- more info. Here's a description of doc. Rich
-
-
- Doc is a WYSIWYG document editor. In addition to text, doc contains a
- simple table editor, and it can import graphics generated by the
- drawing editor Idraw and several types of rasterized images. The
- editor's functionality and terminology is modeled loosely after the
- LaTeX document preparation system. In particular, doc stores its
- documents in a format that is reminiscent of LaTeX; you can translate
- many LaTeX documents into doc format with relatively little effort.
-
- Doc is styled as a technical paper preparation tool. It supports
- floating figures, cross-referencing, section and figure numbering,
- page numbering, user-defined macros and user-defined styles.
- Currently, however, it does not include an equation formatting
- facility or indexing.
-
- Doc uses high-quality TeX formatting algorithms and precise PostScript
- font metrics (where available). The TeX algorithms are able to find
- pleasing line and page breaks for most documents; where necessary, you
- can guide the formatter by inserting discretionary breaks. With care,
- you can expect a high-quality final document.
-
-