Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!mdf From: mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Looking for a Xenix version of WordPerfect. Message-ID: <3245@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 16 Dec 87 01:21:16 GMT References: <234@dalcsug.UUCP> Reply-To: mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) Organization: StrongPoint Systems, Inc.; Columbus, OH. (guest of Ohio State U.) Lines: 22 In <234@dalcsug.UUCP> lalonde@dalcsug.UUCP (Paul Lalonde) writes: > I'm looking for a Xenix version of WordPerfect, does anyone know >of such a beast? I'm running Tandy's flavour of Microsoft Xenix 2.0. >on a Tandy 3000hd. WordPerfect Corporation is developing a XENIX version, but it is not an announced product. The guy I spoke to over there said it was not a high priority. They want to go after the "more popular" environments first. I ask you, are there more systems running XENIX, or more NCR Towers. Sounds like politics to me, or maybe NCR paid for some of the development. One problem I can see in porting WP to UNIX/XENIX is that they rely on 10 function keys with shifted, control, and alt variants. 99% of the terminals out there just can't do it. It'll be interesting to see how they get around this... -- Mark D. Freeman (614) 262-3703 StrongPoint Systems, Inc. mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu 2440 Medary Avenue ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mdf Columbus, OH 43202-3014 Guest account at The Ohio State University