[CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]
C.M. Connelly
cmc at math.hmc.edu
Wed Nov 24 20:00:13 UTC 2010
"ATW" == Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>
ATW> I'm pretty sure they did have such a version; WP was the
ATW> first 'real' word processor available for LINUX. I ran
ATW> it on a LINUX host and a dozen or so NCD X-terminals. It
ATW> worked, but I can't imagine anyone having been a fan. It
ATW> was slow, clunky, and just ugly.
At a previous job, we ran it on HP-UX (with lots of terminal
sessions). Over time, most everyone ended up with Windows
machines, but still with WordPerfect/PerfectOffice. By the time I
left, there was a push to move to Word (I got out just in time!).
ATW> And as for reveal codes... OOo has a mode that displays
ATW> non-printable characters. Beyond that I just don't see
ATW> the point. OOo's document collaboration and versioning
ATW> tools are far and away better than what I recall from WP.
These days I prefer LaTeX's reveal-codes feature, with
collaboration and versioning provided via Subversion or git. ;-)
Claire
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Claire M. Connelly cmc at math.hmc.edu
System Administrator, Dept. of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
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