[ale] Introduction and info about myself

Mon Oct 29 15:23:00 EDT 2012

there was a version of WP for Linux for a while. Corel killed that one
first. I spent countless hours using that as an intermediary between
old Mac wordperfect and new windows word. It was all we had that would
talk both well enough to convert docs without leaving a smoking pile
of bits.

I really liked Lotus AmiPro. GUI, 3 floppies only, didn't crash, easy,
clean,then it went with Lotus straight to the deepest pit of hell -
acquisition by IBM. To think that the pile of feces that is symphony
used to be that simple, always worked well AmiPro as a tear-jerker.
almost like shooting the dog in Old Yeller.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
> Now I will defend the graphical version of WordPerfect to this day.  I still find the current version of WP (unfortunately only available for Windows) to be much more intuitive and easy to use than Word or LibreOffice Writer.  The only problem is that aside from a few law offices, there aren't many people using it anymore…  Corel managed to ride that one all the way to the ground and to start digging...
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> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
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> From: Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at Tux86.org<mailto:rfaulkner at Tux86.org>>
> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org<mailto:ale at ale.org>>
> Date: Monday, October 29, 2012 1:52 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org<mailto:ale at ale.org>>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about myself
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> Wordperfect?  Yeah, but Wordstar was better!!!
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> On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 18:34 +0000, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
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> Wordstar.   Ahem... you're - uh - age is showing   :p
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> My start in computers was working on a PC with DOS 2.0 with Lotus 123 version 1A.   Back in those days even the format command assumed you meant "the current drive" so if you typed "format" rather than "format A:" after inserting a floppy it would happily overwrite the C: drive you'd started the format command from.  Back then we didn't even have "D'oh!" to express our feelings as it was pre-Simpsons.
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> I remember when I first used Wordperfect on Novel version 2 and how its big selling point was that you could hide or display formatting codes at will so it was an improvement over Wordstar which until then had been the killer word processing app.
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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org> [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Beddingfield, Allen
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> To: simontek at gmail.com<mailto:simontek at gmail.com>; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about myself
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> I suppose I fall into the vi category, since I have only used emacs onceŠwell, I opened it once, and then I spent all of the time it was open trying to figure out how to get out of it :D  Figuring out the pid at another terminal and killing it works nicely, BTW.
> As for nano/pico - my nickname for them is "The line-wrapping config file mangler!"  They work great a long as no one opens a complex config file with really long lines.  I'm also partial to joe, since I used to be a WordStar fanatic, and most of the key sequences match up - especially when you open it with "jstar"
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> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
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> On 10/29/12 12:17 PM, "simontek at gmail.com<mailto:simontek at gmail.com>" <simontek at gmail.com<mailto:simontek at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>I use vi myself. A lot of people I know use nano, only 2 people I know
>>use emacs. I figure if I have to use a manual just to exit the program, I
>>don't need it.
>>Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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