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From: joe@pnet51.cts.com (Jim Henderson)
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Subject: Re: Sprint word processor
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Date: 10 Aug 89 06:25:05 GMT
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I've used Sprint, and have found it to be a really good program -
particularaly if you are used to another word processor, like WordPerfect,
Wordstar, and Multimate.  It will emulate these different programs, and also
will read/write even more different formats (I don't have a list of them
handy;  we keep those at work).  If you are looking to go from using a
different word processor, it's a good one.
   Of it's features the one I found to be really useful was the "Quick Card"
command.  Basically, this lets you print a summary card of all of the commands
that are defined.  Other features include Auto-save (and if you turn off the
computer before you save, it will ask you if you want to recover from the
auto-saved file), macro capability, and a flexible user-interface.  If you
don't like the fact that WordPerfect has help on the F3 key, (in 4.2), I don't
believe it can be changed.  In Sprint,t is easy to do.
   All around, it's one of the best I've seen.  The only thing I'd like to see
(I haven't heard if it's in the current version) is emulation for WP 5.0 and
Word 5.0.  The one I tried didn't have these two compatibilities.

   Jim Henderson, joe@pnet51.cts.com
  "Don't ask me how it works or I'll start to whimper."  - Arthur Dent
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