[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[Shark8]

On 9/13/2014 6:38 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2014-09-13, Kerry Main <kerry.main at backtothefutureit.com> wrote:
>>
>> That's one lesson we should always be thinking about .. same was said
>> for Wordperfect ever being replaced by anything or "Apple is dead"
>> (remember Jobs had to be brought back to save Apple) or "everyone
>> has an iphone - who can ever challenge that?" (enter Samsung).
>>
>
> Actually WordPerfect works very nicely on VMS, including within a
> VMS batch job. Makes the _automatic_ creation of letters to customers
> direct from VMS easy.


Really?
I vaguely remember reading something about WordPerfect on VMS -- I 
wonder if we could bug Corel to port a new version to VMS. (Or, failing 
that, spit up some better documentation for the WPD format... as the one 
with the SDK is a little... anemic, IMO.)