From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 20:12:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50B415006 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 20:12:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA10024; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 05:10:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA29606; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 05:10:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA31108; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 05:10:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 05:10:06 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Ian Diddams Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Reading MS Word files Message-ID: <19991007051006.B30900@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt References: <37FB1B9A.9528C984@freenet.uk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <37FB1B9A.9528C984@freenet.uk.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 10:51:22AM +0100, Ian Diddams wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Darren Foo wrote: > > > > > Are there any programs available for Windows that would serve as a > > > X-server? I want to read MS Word and Office documents but MS support > > > under unix has been lacking. > > I might be missing Darren's point here but doesn't Star Office support > MS format files ie can read Word, Excell etc files? And allegedly has > better filters than MS for such stuff? Yes, absolutely so. I've at last got rid of my NT, now that I can read both .doc and .xl* files wirh StarOffice. -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message