SCO Reveals solution to the WP 5.0 / VP/ix problem!
Bob Willey
bob at consult.UUCP
Mon May 7 23:48:58 AEST 1990
In article <407 at aggie.UUCP> rich at aggie.cyanamid.com (Rich Seligson) writes:
>In article <2445 at crash.cts.com> jca at pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>>bob at consult.UUCP (Bob Willey) writes:
>>>We have been running WordPerfect 5.0 under SCO Xenix for several
>>>months now and very successfully (we were a BETA test site).
>> ... People are going to run the latest version of WordPerfect
>>under VP/ix or DOSMerge until the version for their *nix platform is
>>available. ...
>P.S. I haven't seen WordPerfect under Unix. Does it look as good as
> the DOS version? How is the page preview? I assume that can't
> be done on a text-only terminal, but on a "workstation" with
> graphics... email any opinions and info (thanks!)
>rich at cyanamid.com or ...rutgers!aggie!rich
Rich:
WordPerfect 5.0 does look basically just like the Messy-DOS version.
It does have a page preview.
And it does work on most text terminals.
And on terminals like the Wyse 60, it does not do a bad job at all,
it is limited by the graphics character ability of the terminal
it is working on, not WP 5.0.
On a console or workstation, you are basically the same as on
a DOS system.
The only areas that deviate much are the printer sections to
handle the Xenix/Unix printer methods. And they have really
cleaned this area up from their previous version of 4.2.
It is definitely worth a look at, as it is native code, and
not running thru VP/ix.
I have not heard anything yet on WP 5.1. (although I did hear that
WPCorp was going to wait 18 months to come out with 5.2 due to all
the complaints they got about having two releases so close together).
** We are not related to WPCorp other than reselling their product
and also participating in their BETA test program. **
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