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- From: johnn@eskimo.celestial.com (John Navitsky)
- Subject: Re: How bad is WordPerfect 5.1
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.180529.4693@eskimo.celestial.com>
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- References: <1992Sep10.010735.1200@openage.openage.com> <1992Sep10.123654.25300@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:05:29 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:
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- >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'm curious about this. We also use WP 5.1 for Windows and I would assume that
- WP 5.1 for X should look similar. It took me about a week or two to get used
- to the new version which is slower and then it started to grow on me. One of
- the main differences is that WP for Windows does (fairly) WYSIWYG with pro-
- portional fonts, graphics, etc. There is however a "draft mode" (view/draft-
- mode) that reverts to the older sytle screen. Is this feature in the X version?
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- >
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- john
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