Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!wivax!perlman From: perlman@wivax.UUCP (Gary Perlman) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Writers Workbench Message-ID: <20343@wivax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 16:50:25 EST Article-I.D.: wivax.20343 Posted: Fri Dec 7 16:50:25 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 06:25:08 EST References: <6395@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, MA 01879 USA Lines: 17 > I need information on a product called "Writers Workbench". > > -What is it? There are two Writer's Workbenches. The one most people know is the style and diction programs, running on Berkeley UNIX systems. That represents a very old version of WWB. The real WWB is many, maybe 30, programs for aiding the editing process. You can read about them in the July-August Bell System Technical Journal (V. 62, No. 6, part 3). > -What features does it have? It has many many programs. A better spell checker, punctuation checker, find awkwards phrases, sexist language, doubled words, and style, and diction. There's more, but these are the programs I found most useful. > -Is it available, and from whom? WWB is now a product sold by AT&T Technologies, or maybe AT&T Information Systems. I don't know how much it costs. > Gary Perlman/Wang Institute/Tyng Road/Tyngsboro, MA/01879/(617) 649-9731