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Subject:Re: Word--AAUGH! From:John Gilger <jgilger_it -at- NV -dot- DOE -dot- GOV> Date:Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:11:12 -0800
StarOffice seems to be a pretty good package, but you have to be running
Linux/Unix to use it Emacs and vi are also extremely solid, stable text
editors.
John
From: George Beinhorn [SMTP:trail -at- BEST -dot- COM]
Win95 word processors are so sucky. WordPerfect's no better--try
total system
crashes requiring a cold boot.
My solution: do all text editing in WordPerfect 6.1c for DOS,
which is very,
very stable. And it has a configurable keyboard, so if you've
been around since
WordStar you can create an elaborated Control-key "cursor
diamond" scheme.