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- From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
- Subject: Re: How bad is WordPerfect 5.1
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- Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
- References: <1992Sep10.010735.1200@openage.openage.com> <1992Sep10.123654.25300@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 13:44:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.123654.25300@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> g.barker%nmr.ion.bpmf.ac.uk@mail-a.bcc.ac.uk writes:
- >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.
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- I also just found out that WP51 doesn't understand BSD groups. There's
- a nifty feature that allows you to restrict access to users that belong
- to particular groups. You can also, say, make everyone in group "staff"'s
- print jobs print at a higher priority. Unfortunately it's next to useless
- unless you train all of your users to use the 'newgrp' command before
- running xwp. Duh.
-
- --Dave
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- System Administrator, Population Research Institute barr@pop.psu.edu
- Emacs is a fine operating system, but I still prefer UNIX. - Tom Christiansen
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