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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: easy word proc?
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Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 18:51:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 18:51:38 1984
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>> '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
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