From: dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > I think there must have been a 5.5 otherwise you wouldn't > have a 5.6.
As it happens, there was, as Felix Miata noted. But versions *can* be skipped by vendors. > I only use the wordperfect off the disk - yet. > Some lady on the web sells a dos wordperfect update > to 6.2 and I also bought that - Corel autherized. There are holdouts still running DOS software, but not under DOS. There's a WordPerfect for DOS fan site with information on how to make it work on Windows using vDOS. There are similar folks doing the same thing to continue running WordStar. Noted SF author Robert Sawyer maintains a WordStar page on his website with chapter and verse on using vDOS to run WordStar under Windows. The problem for both products was failure to keep up with the market. Micropro took its eye off the WordStar ball and attempted to diversify. WordPerfect ate them for lunch. Word Perfect waited too long to develop a Windows version. By the time they did, MS Word owned the word processing market. I know people who still use WordStar or WordPerfect, but also keep Word around. They are writers selling content, and what the editors they sell to expect to see is a Word document. They may compose in WP or WS, but import to Word for submission draft. > cheers > DS ______ Dennis > On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 17:52:57 -0400 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> > writes: >> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> >> wrote: >> >> > It seemed strange that a version of Quattro Pro following 5 would >> be 5.6 as opposed to 5.1 or 5.5. >> >> Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember >> Dale said this was *unreleased* software. (I don't recall offhand >> whether there was an actual Quattro 5.5 release.) >> >> > Now I migrate as much as possible to Gnumeric. >> >> What has your experience been? >> >> > In the days of Quattro Pro 5 for DOS, I never heard of wi-fi or >> BSD checksums. >> >> Back then, Wifi didn't exist, and BSD required an AT&T source >> license >> to run, since it derived from AT&T code. Checksums were around, but >> rather simpler and easily spoofed. Nobody cared about that because >> no >> one was *trying* to. >> >> > Tom >> ______ >> Dennis >> https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > > > ******************************************************>>>> > >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry > http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 > *******************************************************>>>> > > ____________________________________________________________ > Eat This Herb To Reverse Hearing Loss > Navajo Hearing System > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/58fe15db7039a15db762dst01duc > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- Internet Rex 2.29 * Origin: capcity2.synchro.net - 502/875-8938 (276:10/901) --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux ListGate 1.3 * Capitol City Online - Frankfort, KY - telnet://capitolcityonline.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
