Modern WordPerfect is actually quite nice, and to my knowledge it's the only
big name word processor that runs on Linux. I'd wish for a BeOS port, but
Gobe Productive 2.0 is as good or better and BeOS native. WP also has more
problems translating Word documents than Gobe does. Now that printing works
reasonably I'm unlikely to reload WP on my windows side because I do my
word processing in my primary desktop OS - BeOS. If BeOS supported my scanner
I could finally rip windows off this system completely and throw it out.
On that note, to any of the folks working on the SANE port and ScannerBE, first
I'd like to offer to beta test with my umax astra 610s. Second, I'd love to
see ANY scanner support, but I think it'd be prudent for either project to
leverage the existing SANE drivers. Why reinvent the wheel? Third, I'd also
like to see some kind of pseudo-translator so ANY graphic software can import
directly from the scanner without having to be re-written to use some other
API.
>
> Sorry, but WordPerfect contributed a lot to their own demise. First, they
> abandoned many of the non-Windows platforms that made them attractive in the
> first place (e.g. DOS, Amiga, NeXT). The ability to exchange documents
> between different platforms was a huge win for WordPerfect, and they threw
> it away. Second, when they belatedly jumped on the Windows bandwagon, they
> produced a buggy, unstable, all but unusable version - WP for Windows 6.0.
> The time it took them to fix all of the problems with WP 6.0 enabled MS-Word
> to catch up on features, when WP had been demonstrably better up until then.
>
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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