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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 13:08:10 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Natasha Hendrick <natasha@baldrick.geoph.uq.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Word processors under FreeBSD
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On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 01:19:00PM +1000, Natasha Hendrick wrote:
>
> I am currently running FreeBSD 2.2.2 and am trying to find an effective
> (and cheap) way to be able to access a word processor from my PC without
> having to reboot to DOS to use MS word.  Someone has suggested to me that
> it may be possible to run Applix (?) using a Linux emulator that is
> available for FreeBSD.

Quite possibly.

> Are there any word processors available for FreeBSD?

None specifically for FreeBSD.  A number of people have been happy
with StarOffice, which is really a Linux port.

> Does anyone have any other suggestions to allow easy access to a
> word processor while running FreeBSD?

About the only other alternative would be the Microsoft Windows
emulator, wine.  I don't know if it could handle any Microsoft-based
word processors.

Greg