From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 10 18: 3:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jumping-spider.aracnet.com (jumping-spider.aracnet.com [205.159.88.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45AE14C87 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 18:01:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beattie@aracnet.com) Received: from shell2.aracnet.com (IDENT:1728@shell2.aracnet.com [205.159.88.20]) by jumping-spider.aracnet.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA32667; Mon, 10 May 1999 17:10:19 -0700 Received: from localhost by shell2.aracnet.com (8.8.7) id RAA00378; Mon, 10 May 1999 17:10:20 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: shell2.aracnet.com: beattie owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:10:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Beattie To: Bob Willcox Cc: hackers list Subject: Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When? In-Reply-To: <19990510173605.B11750@luke.pmr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? > Don't know about Word Perfect but StarOffice does. I had been holding of buying StarOffice waiting to see what Applix did but now I can see no sense in waiting. > Bob > > -- > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Beattie | The only problem with beattie@aracnet.com | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message