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On Fri, 7 Oct 1994, Peter Breton wrote: > > Wouldn't it be easier to just run WP 5.1 under the DOS emulator? True, > it's not free, but you should be able to buy it for a song. > > Peter The SCO version of WP uses Motif, and takes full advantage of the Unix environment to integrate itself with email, databases, etc. This makes it a good choice for showing commercial applications running on Linux. The DOS version wouldn't have anywhere near this coolness value. For actual production use, I suppose the DOS wp may be a better choice than vi and troff for standard business purposes... :-/ -- John Abreau / Director, BCS Linux/Unix Group / jabr at bcs.org The Boston Computer Society / 101 First Avenue, Suite 2 / Waltham, MA 02154 Voice +1 617 290 5700 / Fax +1 617 290 5744
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