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- From: g.barker%nmr.ion.bpmf.ac.uk@ucl.ac.uk (Dr Gareth Barker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: Re: How bad is WordPerfect 5.1
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.123654.25300@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 12:36:54 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.010735.1200@openage.openage.com>
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- Organization: Institute of Neurology NMR Research Group, London, UK.
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- In article 1200@openage.openage.com, gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:
- >brian@nds.com (Brian Dockter) writes:
- >
- >>Jeff@digtype.airage.com (Jeff Wasilko) writes:
- >>:
- >>: A while ago, there was a very negative discussion of WordPerfect (maybe
- >>: 5.0?). Now, WordPerfect has released 5.1, which supposedly supports
- >>: Xwindows in addition to character terminals.
- ...
-
- >
- >I know WP5.0 with WPTERM=gui_color is slower than molassas in winter, but
- >I've seen WP51, and it is much better. WP51 for UNIX isn't out yet, as
- >far as I know, but I only follow SCO versions. I saw it at SCO Forum last
- >month, and it looked fast and fine.
-
- A Sparc binary of 5.1 is on the CDOffice cd thats just been distributed ot
- (some) Sun sites. Motif interface, WYSIWYG, lots of (too many) popups, help
- windows etc. Fairly SLOW, but just about usable. Screen fonts looked nasty at
- 100% magnification, not too bad at 150%. Looks nothing like WP5.0 for Suns,
- or WP5.0/5.1 for MSDOS.
-
- (For anyone trying to run the demo on the cd - I got a message about a missing
- setup file '.wpc51'. Copy the whole wp directory structure from the cdrom
- to /tmp, or somewhere, and then link '.wp51' (in the bin directory) to '.wpc51'.
- Then run the binary xwp).
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