WordPerfect for DOS 5.1 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Dec 2005

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Subject: Re: WordPerfect for DOS 5.1
   From: Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com>
   Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:36:31 -0500
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Allison wrote:
  Subject:
Re: WordPerfect for DOS 5.1
  From: Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org>
  Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:43:15 -0600
    To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>

Allison wrote:

 A friend uses WP8 or 9 as Word is not optimum for
legal
briefs and the like.  
Why?  

 At the time (5-7 years ago) it was the standard in the legal industry 
 as it handled footnotes, citations and other aspects of legal documents
 better than work at the time.  That may have changed, maybe. 
   I think this is a regional thing, at least to some extent, but it has 
changed a little.  (I'm "primary tech nerd" for a lawyer friend, so I 
have the latest skinny) 
Same here.  I'd heard most had gone with PDF.  If all else fails the 
paper version still rules.

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    WP is still the common application of choice, but
where most 
electronic documents were submitted as WordPerfect documents 3-5 years 
ago, PDF is now the preferred submission format.  This has a lot to do 
with the perceived security of a PDF document, and the fact that it's 
mostly application-agnostic.

   Please note that I said _perceived_ security!  I do know it's not 
difficult to alter a PDF.  The public, for the most part, doesn't. 
Yep rodger that.  It's far harder to do a file compare to the original
and be sure you r getting an unalterd PDF.

Word however, you have to be careful as it's possible to see previous 
versions and changes!

Allison