WordPerfect for DOS 5.1

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: WordPerfect for DOS 5.1
>   From: Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com>
>   Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:36:31 -0500
>     To: General at mdrconsult.com, "Discussion at mdrconsult.com":On-Topic and Off-Topic
> Posts	<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>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.

>   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