TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (03/31/89)
I just returned from being on site with a client where I was "forced" to compose quite a bit of material on a VT220 connected to a fairly hefty but lightly load VAX. The editor available was something called EDT and the "wordprocessor" was some version of runoff. I would have given my eyeteeth to be back on my GS using WordPerfect. With one minor exception, even the spelling checker on the GS was better. (The one on the VAX did make note of how you mispelled a word so that if it encountered exactly the same misspelling again it automatically made the substitution) And for whoever it was that thinks the mouse interface is for the birds, or something like that, I have to tell you it must have taken me a couple of hours to learn not to reach for the mouse when I wanted to move the cursor. (I am quite a fast typist and make pretty good use of WordPerfect's ability to enter commands either through keystrokes or menus, so it wasn't a question of pulldownmenuitis.)