[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-14, Shark8 <OneWingedShark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/2014 6:38 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> 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.)

A new version is not really viable given the alternatives which exist
today.

BTW, the version of WordPerfect for VMS is 5.1; this is a purely
character cell version.

Simon.

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