From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 23 16:19:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (gargoyle-xl0.apana.org.au [210.215.3.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518F937B5AC for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:19:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16589; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 09:18:34 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdy16586; Sat Jun 24 09:18:25 2000 Message-ID: <019d01bfdd69$93b7bce0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "Heiko Recktenwald" Cc: "ML Duke" , References: Subject: Re: Staroffice 3.1 Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 09:20:06 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > It doesnt install. WP comes as a *tar file, you untar it and you get some > ?_??? files, a Reame and a Runme, that works. Its around 24 MB big, thats > ok for download, well 1 and a half hour.... > Hmmmm ....maybe OK for geeks but thats not gonna win it many "real world office" users. At least StarOffice 5.x (for both Windows & Solaris anyway) has an installer that any moron could use. I guess the linux version has something similar, but I've managed to successfully remove all instances of that particular virus from any place I support. > And the history of word proces sors..first there was wordstar, believe it or not there's still the "odd" one of those stoneage applications lurking around in OZ, also the occasional "PFS First Choice" from the same era > then came > the other two, word and wordperfect. It looks better than Word, and it > works, thats ok. Had Word for Windows....maybe I should try staroffice for > windows too. I tried Word in some variety of linux years ago and found it quite unintuitive, clunky, and defaulting to some weird format that was incompatible with anything used on planet earth, so never too any further interest in it. As I recall it was just a bare word processor rather than an office suite (a la Applixware, MS Office, StarOffice, Lotus Smartsuite etc) so thats why its more compact. No doubt a wordprocessor only install of StarOffice is in the 20Mb region too. > > Wordperfect was allways rather popular, I think in the american academic > community more than Word. As I remember from some doctors. But they had > the non x version, which isnt free. (And complicated..) Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS is still widely used in OZ, particularly in (il)legal offices & the (in)Justice Department. (political correctness hasn't reached those areas yet) It used to be standard in real estate too, since the menu system lent itself well to the special templates required for all the documentation peculiar to the industry. My girlfriend (a legal eagle) still uses it at around 100 words per minute I'm not aware of many other places its still used though, friend Bill has infiltrated his products very well here. I can't imagine a CLI unix version of Word gaining much market share .... don't all the full-on geeks swear by vi ?? Mind you I guess the complication wouldn't worry anyone who uses vi, its gotta be the best example I've seen yet of complication for no good reason :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message