csj wrote: > <snip> > I beg to disagree with the crowd. Its features aside, WP must be one of > the most vicious pieces of software I've handled, next perhaps only to > vi(cious ;8-). I'm not particularly demanding WRT ease of use: just > something you can start and exit without reading the manual. (I can > figure out the rest.) The Gold Standard (tm) for me has always been > WordStar (around versions 4 or 5), probably the most user-friendly pure > DOS program ever coded. > > The level of control you want for your documents is better served by a > dedicated DTP program like Ventura. The DOS version (running IIRC a > run-time version of the GEM desktop environment) was fast, pretty fast > even when run on an ancient XT. But I share the WP crowd's lament about > their favorite word processor. Like WP, Ventura was bought out by Corel. >
Seconded. WP was what made me learn Qedit.
