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Date:      Mon, 10 May 1999 17:10:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>
To:        Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com>
Cc:        hackers list <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9905101708240.17138-100000@shell2.aracnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990510173605.B11750@luke.pmr.com>

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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
> 
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