Pfs:Write
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- The correct title of this article is pfs:Write. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
pfs:Write is a simple early word processor for DOS systems created by Software Publishing Corporation. It included basic features such as automatic word wrapping, spell checking, copy and paste, underlining, and boldfacing. It was considered easier to learn and use than its fuller-featured and more expensive competitors WordPerfect and XyWrite.
Software Publishing Corporation created an early office suite under the pfs name, releasing products such as pfs:File, pfs:Report, pfs:Graph, and pfs:Plan. They also relesed versions of the "pfs" series for Apple II-based computers. A later enhanced version of pfs:Write was called pfs:Professional Write.
In the mid-1980's IBM contracted with Sofware Publishing Corporation to develop the IBM Assistant Series, which was an enhanced and rebranded version of the pfs family of products, and was localized for European markets. IBM advertised the suite using a Chaplin-esque figure getting all of his ducks in a row, in a Super Bowl TV ad, and in print ads.
