Re: OT: Rant

[john <johnpf@atnet.net.au>]

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.