Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 18:56:37 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: Bob Willcox <bob@pmr.com>, hackers list <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? Message-ID: <19990510185637.A12837@luke.pmr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905101948580.401-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:50:12PM -0400 References: <19990510173605.B11750@luke.pmr.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905101948580.401-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:50:12PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 1999, Bob Willcox wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 06:28:44PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > Does anybody know the status of this? www.cdrom.com is saying it is
> > > > scheduled for mid-November and taking pre-orders. Seems its been in
> > > > this state for quite awhile. What year are they refering to?
> > >
> > > When I asked them about 2 weeks ago, they said mid November. Of 2000.
> >
> > Wow! By November of 2000 I may be retired. :-)
> >
> > >
> > > Not this year, pal. The lady was clear on that. You could find better
> > > places to stick your cash, for the moment. To tell you the truth, I
> > > just bought Word Perfect (for Linux) and it's *way* smaller, only about
> > > 100 megs installed (including help files), and a good deal. I could
> > > wish it was FreeBSD-native, but I haven't been able to tell, yet, any
> > > difference.
> >
> > Maybe I'll take a look at Word Perfect. Does it do Word documents?
>
> Mail me a Word document. I'm not sure, I'll have to try it. I don't do
> any Windows here, I haven't any experience with Word (and never really
> liked it last time I tried it, years back).
Nor I, but unfortunately for some folks it seems to be the only editor
they know. :-(
I do occasionally get word documents and need a way to view/print them
w/o using Windows.
--
Bob Willcox The man who follows the crowd will usually get no
bob@luke.pmr.com further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is
Austin, TX likely to find himself in places no one has ever
been. -- Alan Ashley-Pitt
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