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

Mike Meredith mike at blackhairy.demon.co.uk
Sun Feb 16 13:33:42 CST 2003


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.

> possibility of obtaining it, since Corel has declared non-PeeCee
> versions of WP dead.

I guess that makes it "abandonware"


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