[net.text] Use of ``vi'' for business office w

koenker@uiucuxe.CSO.UIUC.EDU (09/09/86)

I'm in a fairly computer illiterate academic department--
economics at u. illinois (urbana).  We use vi, ditroff,etc
exclusively for technical word processing and find it very
satisfactory.  The hardware configuration is minimal:
an IBM-AT and the HP Ljet, but it produces *very* nice
results with the help of software by Textware (in Cambridge
Mass).  I'd reccommend this direction with one caveat:
someone must be willing to invest some time in learning
some unix basics; without some sort of local expert the
earlier comments about the superiority of dos word 
"processing" are probably correct.