Wordperfect under unix - opinions?

[Robert Claeson]

In article <3673 at zorba.Tynan.COM>, bill at bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) writes:

> I have just have my first experience with WP - running 5.0 under SCO Xenix, so
> the WP 5 should be out for Unix, if not now, soon.

SCO Xenix is the first port. After it, NCR Tower, Sun and 88open BCS will
follow in rapid succession with further ports coming.

> >  2) is it horribly slow compared to Wordperfect on the PC?
> 
> Can't answer that because I have avoided WP on the PC - but seems to work just
> fine in this environment.

I use it on a Wyse 185 terminal at 38.4 Kbps off a Xylogics Annex II terminal
server. Its screen updates are not as fast as on a PC (nothing can be --
hosts usually don't have access to the terminal's screen memory), but almost,
and many other things, such as spell checking and searching, are magnitudes
faster than on a PC.

> >  4) any personal opinions?
> 
> Yup!  I don't like wordprocessors that encode their files.  It makes it a pain
> to transport them elsewhere in the Unix environment.  But that doesn't mean
> much for a lot of users.

WordPerfect encodes its files in a character-set and machine independent
format so that files can be moved freely between systems without the need
to convert them.

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