From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 7 20:17:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA01797 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:17:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01780 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA29569; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:44:43 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA07677; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:44:43 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981008124443.K7327@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:44:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Brent H. Phelps" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft Applications References: <002b01bdf262$537a9060$537347ce@hh1115083.direcpc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <002b01bdf262$537a9060$537347ce@hh1115083.direcpc.com>; from Brent H. Phelps on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 09:21:11PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com] On Wednesday, 7 October 1998 at 21:21:11 -0500, Brent H. Phelps wrote: > Can programs found in Office97 be run when using Unix or FreeBSD as > the operating system. No, at least as far as FreeBSD is concerned. There are some Microsoft emulators out there for commercial UNIXes (Solaris, I think), but I don't know if they can run Office 97. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message