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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
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>>I never could figure out why the Lotus word processor (Ami Pro now Word Pro) when it went to release 5 suddenly decided that the conventional Windows keystrokes weren't good enough for it, and implemented its own set. [snip]
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>>Ami Pro was the best word process on the planet, and may still be. Easy to use, logical, consistant, intuitive. Then Lotus bought it. I switched to Word95 because 1) it was cheaper, 2) I didn't like the way the new Ami Pro worked.
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>The company's name was Samana, I think. The file extension for the documents (fittingly enough) was "sam". I never used it until after LDC bought it so I can't say as to its quality beforehand.

It was awesome. I still have a lot of diskettes containing my *.sam backup files. I'm hoping someone will make an Ami Pro compatibile WP in Linux someday.
Nebraska Dept of Revenue
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