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John Bragazzi wrote:
> I use YellowDog Linux 2.3 on an iMac, and I have two questions.
> 
> 1) Is there a Linux text editor which allows you to cut rectangular 
> areas of text and move them around in a file?  This is the main thing 
> which keeps me using DOS on one of my computers, since I need this 
> feature and QEdit (for DOS) has it.  If I had this, I could use Linux 
> for pretty much everything.  I realize that vi may have this feature 
> (it seems to have pretty much everything else), but I haven't found 
> it yet.

With vi you can cut and paste lines of code from one part of a file to 
another by using the dd comand and p command

> 
> 2) Is it still possible to get WordPerfect for Linux?  Corel has taken 
> it down, but is it possible to get a copy somewhere?

Why WordPerfect? Try OpenOffice, it can handle ALL of your word 
processing needs, including what you mentioned above.

Joe