oliveau@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Oliveau) (09/19/90)
Apologies to my LA friends for the cross post, but I'm trying to cover my bases. Anyway, I'm purchasing some Sun equipment and need some input and advice. Is PC-NFS worth it at $750? What sort of benefits - REAL BENEFITS - do I get from it? Has anyone done anything really interesting with it? How about Lifeline, a PC-NFS add-on that provides for E-mail and remote backups? Any experience with either of these products? I also require a word processor, like you might find on a PC. Many of us use WordPerfect on our PC's, so it would be nice to use the same on a Unix workstation. But WP only has through version 4.2 on the Suns! There are no graphics or anything. On the other hand, Interleaf has an introductory package for about $800 per station. Has anyone had experience w/ Interleaf? Is it a good (great?) technical publication package? I do know that Interleaf is WYSIWYG, while WP is just like on the PC - standard characters (without a page previewer in v4.2!). Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated. Thanks in Advance, Greg.
frist@ccu.umanitoba.ca (10/08/90)
In article <1990Sep18.204339.9329@rice.edu> oliveau@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Oliveau) writes: >I also require a word processor, like you might find on a PC. Many of us >use WordPerfect on our PC's, so it would be nice to use the same on a Unix >workstation. But WP only has through version 4.2 on the Suns! Actually, the August issue of WordPerfect Magazine has an ad in the Product Guide announcing WP 5.0 for UNIX, which I assume means SUN. I don't know how long it's been out, or when 5.1 will be ready. The address and phone # are: WordPerfect Corp. 1555 North Technology Way Orem, UT 84057 801-225-5000 Another alternative that works well is to run WP under DOS Windows. I have successfully run both WP5.0 and WP5.1 (graphics, mouse, the works) within DOS Windows. If you know how to do it, you can even get your dot-matrix printer to do everything it's supposed to do. However, it was NOT EASY to figure out how. I will address the subject of dot-matrix 8-bit printers in a later posting, probably next week. Two problems with WP under DOS Windows: First, the screen is small, 80char by 24 lines, just like in DOS. This is an intrinsic limitation of DOS Windows itself. Second, DOS Windows doesn't run under SUN-OS 4.1, so if you upgrade from 4.0.3, you're out of luck, at least for now. Anybody out there know if SUN plans to fix this problem?