[rescue] WordPerfect for Unix (was: SMC blows...)

Eric Webb ttlchaos at randomc.com
Sun Feb 16 14:25:22 CST 2003


On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:33 pm, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Sunday 16 February 2003 7:15 pm, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > Thus going back to the original question of whether or not a
> > curses-mode version of WordPerfect (like WordPerfect for DOS) exists
> > for Unix.
>
> Yes it does exist. It also exists for VMS, and possibly a number of
> other proprietry oses. And it did a pretty good job of working on
> terminals ... in fact WordPerfect was so good on a Wyse160 that I
> preferred it to a PC.

I thought WP was recompiled as Java or something to make it cross-platform?


Eric


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