Use of ``vi'' for business office word-processing

Steve Alesch sja at ih1ap.UUCP
Fri Sep 12 14:19:25 AEST 1986


In article <344 at fai.UUCP>, stevem at fai.UUCP (Steve Minneman) writes:
...
> I agree with Paul in every respect, except for buying a PC for everyone.
> It's tough if not impossible to teach many people who want to only edit
> documents how to use an editor, a text formatter, and all the system commands.
> However, this is no reason to run the extra expense of buying all those PCs
> -- there are some excellent "word-processing" packages such as LEX-11
> available under both UNIX and VMS for machines such as VAXEN.  If you put your
> word-processing software on the VAX (or similiar machine) you can teach casua
> users of this software how to access it with mimimal interaction with other
> commands and the operating system and yet allow them access to the additional
> power of the larger machine when and if they so desire to learn and use it.-- 
> ---

Come on, get serious!!!  Your suggesting a 3 secretary law office needs
a $300,000 system!!!
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Steve Alesch	AT&T
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