Is there any wordprocessor in unix

Barry Shein bzs at bu-cs.BU.EDU
Mon Jul 10 01:56:54 AEST 1989


>From article <4856 at macom1.UUCP>, by larry at macom1.UUCP (Larry Taborek):
>> From article <7868 at bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, by mysore at bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Swamy Bale):
>>>    Just wondering, is there any word processor utility in UNIX bsd 4.2
>>> 
>> Yes, its called 'vi'.
>>
>Great. And it has all those fancy fonts, it can format the text in 
>two columns and make a lot of other things usual WP's do? Or you'll
>tell that I need also troff, fonts for it (who knows where from),
>special previewer and so on?
>
>Uri.

*OH*, YoU /m/u/s/t/ be |one| of those FoNt-WeEnieS who would .s.e.n.d
me those "RaNsoM-nOtE" format M!E!M!O!S.

Word-processing and desk-top publishing are two different things.

Unfortunately some folks like to turn memo-writing into a video arcade
game.

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