Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!aecom!werner From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: easy word proc? Message-ID: <1000@aecom.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 18:51:38 EST Article-I.D.: aecom.1000 Posted: Tue Dec 4 18:51:38 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 06:31:34 EST References: <608@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 29 >> 'wordstar' blows them away! > Besides the fact that Nobody I have tried to teach Wordstar to has ever taken more than 1/2 hour to learn it. Most people take the wrong approach -- there are only really 10-12 commands that need to be known to do 98% of everything. If you consider that, WS ain't so bad. But anyway: Worse than WS are Microsoft Word and Volkswriter. One is too slow and all the commands take up space on the screen (Word) and the other with its Alt/Shift/Control Function keys is too easy to do disastrous things with (Volks). Supposedly just like the Wang is Multimate (at least that's what the Reviews say - never used it. Leading Edge, I beleive, makes similar claims. IBM has Display/Write II (or maybe Displaywriter -sp.), which though not like Wang's are just like Dedicated Word Processors designed for Secretaries. One person I know thinks PFS:Write is easy to use and the like, but I do not agree with her at all. Besides that, I hate the colors it forces on the screen (I have RGB.) (BTW - if there is enough interest, I'll post the subset of WS commands worth knowing - with the rest being commentary.) -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner What do you expect? Watermelons are out of season!