[ale] Introduction and info about myself

Mon Oct 29 15:32:00 EDT 2012

Ah, I remember the Linux version of WP well.  That was back in the late
90s when Corel was still dabbling in the Linux field (anyone remember
their distro "Corel Linux?").  I was a heavy user of Lotus Approach in the
90s . . . I could get more done in five minutes with Approach than I could
in five hours with Access or Paradox.  It is such a shame that it had a
similar fate to AmiPro.
Allen B.
-- 
Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama

On 10/29/12 2:23 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

>there was a version of WP for Linux for a while. Corel killed that one
>first. I spent countless hours using that as an intermediary between
>old Mac wordperfect and new windows word. It was all we had that would
>talk both well enough to convert docs without leaving a smoking pile
>of bits.
>
>I really liked Lotus AmiPro. GUI, 3 floppies only, didn't crash, easy,
>clean,then it went with Lotus straight to the deepest pit of hell -
>acquisition by IBM. To think that the pile of feces that is symphony
>used to be that simple, always worked well AmiPro as a tear-jerker.
>almost like shooting the dog in Old Yeller.
>
>On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
>> Now I will defend the graphical version of WordPerfect to this day.  I
>>still find the current version of WP (unfortunately only available for
>>Windows) to be much more intuitive and easy to use than Word or
>>LibreOffice Writer.  The only problem is that aside from a few law
>>offices, there aren't many people using it anymore...  Corel managed to
>>ride that one all the way to the ground and to start digging...
>> --
>> Allen Beddingfield
>> Systems Engineer
>> The University of Alabama
>>
>> From: Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at Tux86.org<mailto:rfaulkner at Tux86.org>>
>> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org<mailto:ale at ale.org>>
>> Date: Monday, October 29, 2012 1:52 PM
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org<mailto:ale at ale.org>>
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about myself
>>
>> Wordperfect?  Yeah, but Wordstar was better!!!
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 18:34 +0000, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>>
>> Wordstar.   Ahem... you're - uh - age is showing   :p
>>
>> My start in computers was working on a PC with DOS 2.0 with Lotus 123
>>version 1A.   Back in those days even the format command assumed you
>>meant "the current drive" so if you typed "format" rather than "format
>>A:" after inserting a floppy it would happily overwrite the C: drive
>>you'd started the format command from.  Back then we didn't even have
>>"D'oh!" to express our feelings as it was pre-Simpsons.
>>
>> I remember when I first used Wordperfect on Novel version 2 and how its
>>big selling point was that you could hide or display formatting codes at
>>will so it was an improvement over Wordstar which until then had been
>>the killer word processing app.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>
>>[mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Beddingfield, Allen
>> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 2:20 PM
>> To: simontek at gmail.com<mailto:simontek at gmail.com>; Atlanta Linux
>>Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about myself
>>
>> I suppose I fall into the vi category, since I have only used emacs
>>onceŠwell, I opened it once, and then I spent all of the time it was
>>open trying to figure out how to get out of it :D  Figuring out the pid
>>at another terminal and killing it works nicely, BTW.
>> As for nano/pico - my nickname for them is "The line-wrapping config
>>file mangler!"  They work great a long as no one opens a complex config
>>file with really long lines.  I'm also partial to joe, since I used to
>>be a WordStar fanatic, and most of the key sequences match up -
>>especially when you open it with "jstar"
>>
>> --
>> Allen Beddingfield
>> Systems Engineer
>> The University of Alabama
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/29/12 12:17 PM, "simontek at gmail.com<mailto:simontek at gmail.com>"
>><simontek at gmail.com<mailto:simontek at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>I use vi myself. A lot of people I know use nano, only 2 people I know
>>>use emacs. I figure if I have to use a manual just to exit the program,
>>>I
>>>don't need it.
>>>Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
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>>>Sender: ale-bounces at ale.org<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>
>>>Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:09:45
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