Problem passing file to WordPerfect

On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 02:20:47 -0700, John Corliss
wrote:


WordPerfect is so vastly superior to MS Word or any of its clones that
IMHO, there's no contest. Just the Reveal Codes feature alone makes it
that way, but there are tons of other reasons as well.


I basically agree with you, but I wouldn't put it quite as strongly
as you do.

Ken Blake on Sun, 04 Sep 2016 07:12:36 -0700
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 02:20:47 -0700, John Corliss
wrote:


WordPerfect is so vastly superior to MS Word or any of its clones that
IMHO, there's no contest. Just the Reveal Codes feature alone makes it
that way, but there are tons of other reasons as well.

SubDocs are my "neater than folded undershirts" feature. I had to
take a class on Word once, asked about subdocs and using them.
Eventually the word came back - there are two sorts of sub document
sorts in Word: the corrupted, and the "not corrupted yet".


I basically agree with you, but I wouldn't put it quite as strongly
as you do.

I would. Having to scrap my wife off the ceiling after she's
dealt with Word, nope, I'll stick to WP.
OTOH, I'll admit, I started with WP when it was WordStar and have
migrated along with platform and program changes.

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pyotr filipivich
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pyotr filipivich wrote:
Ken Blake on Sun, 04 Sep 2016 07:12:36 -0700
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 02:20:47 -0700, John Corliss
wrote:


WordPerfect is so vastly superior to MS Word or any of its clones that
IMHO, there's no contest. Just the Reveal Codes feature alone makes it
that way, but there are tons of other reasons as well.

SubDocs are my "neater than folded undershirts" feature. I had to
take a class on Word once, asked about subdocs and using them.
Eventually the word came back - there are two sorts of sub document
sorts in Word: the corrupted, and the "not corrupted yet".


I basically agree with you, but I wouldn't put it quite as strongly
as you do.

I would. Having to scrap my wife off the ceiling after she's
dealt with Word, nope, I'll stick to WP.
OTOH, I'll admit, I started with WP when it was WordStar and have
migrated along with platform and program changes.

AFAIK, WordPerfect was never WordStar. WordStar was a competing program:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect

"The program was originally developed under contract at Brigham Young
University for use on a Data General minicomputer in 1979. The authors
retained the rights to the program, forming Satellite Software
International (SSI) to sell it under the name WordPerfect in 1980. A
port to DOS followed in 1982 and several greatly updated versions
quickly followed. The application's feature list was considerably more
advanced than its main competition, WordStar, an established program
that originated on CP/M."

The only reason Microsoft Word became so popular is that Microsoft was
giving it away bundled on new computers until the user base outnumbered
those using WP. I remember it well, knew what was going on at the time,
was using WP 5.1 for DOS at the college I where I worked.

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John Corliss

On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 02:15:07 -0700, John Corliss
wrote:

pyotr filipivich wrote:

OTOH, I'll admit, I started with WP when it was WordStar and have
migrated along with platform and program changes.

AFAIK, WordPerfect was never WordStar. WordStar was a competing program:


Right. Very different from WordPerfect and greatly inferior to it.


The only reason Microsoft Word became so popular is that Microsoft was
giving it away bundled on new computers until the user base outnumbered
those using WP. I remember it well, knew what was going on at the time,
was using WP 5.1 for DOS at the college I where I worked.


As far as I'm concerned, the reason that WordPerfect lost its number
one position to Microsoft Word is that WordPerfect 6.0 was a very
buggy release and caused many people to abandon it.

John Corliss on Mon, 5 Sep 2016 02:15:07 -0700
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
Ken Blake on Sun, 04 Sep 2016 07:12:36 -0700
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 02:20:47 -0700, John Corliss
wrote:


WordPerfect is so vastly superior to MS Word or any of its clones that
IMHO, there's no contest. Just the Reveal Codes feature alone makes it
that way, but there are tons of other reasons as well.

SubDocs are my "neater than folded undershirts" feature. I had to
take a class on Word once, asked about subdocs and using them.
Eventually the word came back - there are two sorts of sub document
sorts in Word: the corrupted, and the "not corrupted yet".


I basically agree with you, but I wouldn't put it quite as strongly
as you do.

I would. Having to scrap my wife off the ceiling after she's
dealt with Word, nope, I'll stick to WP.
OTOH, I'll admit, I started with WP when it was WordStar and have
migrated along with platform and program changes.

AFAIK, WordPerfect was never WordStar. WordStar was a competing program:

Okay. I just remember using it when it was in the low single
digit versions, on DOS.
What hurt WP was the 'delay' in rolling out a Windows compatible
version.

[snip]

The only reason Microsoft Word became so popular is that Microsoft was
giving it away bundled on new computers until the user base outnumbered
those using WP. I remember it well, knew what was going on at the time,
was using WP 5.1 for DOS at the college I where I worked.

I developed a huge Contrarian streak with regards to software,
long about that point in time, myself.

tschus
pyotr

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pyotr filipivich
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