Re: Looking for a text mode word processor

["Sam Stern" <samstern@samstern.net>]

> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:16:47PM +0000, Gordon Grieder
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:04:38AM -0500, Sam Stern wrote:
> > 
> > > BTW, if anyone has managed to get WordPerfect or WordStar
> > > Unix working under OpenBSD i386 3.0 I would like to hear
> > > from you. Given that that these word processors are so
> > > cheap on eBay, if I can get one of them running reliably
> > > on OBSD I'd be one happy camper.
> 
> Uh.. was there ever a WordStar version for Unix?
> 
> > WordStar-like editor: /usr/ports/editors/joe
> 
> or /usr/ports/editors/jed  with a WordStar-like mode
> 
> 
> -- 
> Horacio
> 

Hi Horacio,

I'll give Jed/Joe a look. BTW, there are BSDI versions of Both
WordPerfect and WordStar (for older versions of BSDI) so I was hoping
that someone had managed to get this going on OpenBSD's emulation of
BSDI -- guess it's no dice there. The reason for the question is that
ispell and friends really do not cope well with Dyslexia based phonetic
miss-spellings nor do the current crop of front ends cope well with the
"multiple tries to get a word miss spelled but close enough to figure
out what word you wanted" approach.


Thanks!


Sam S.