From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Apr 8 17:18:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.118.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9D3154A0 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 17:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@marconi.concentric.net) Received: from marconi.concentric.net (marconi [206.173.118.71]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id UAA12285; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:16:42 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts001d12.mer-id.concentric.net (ts001d12.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.24]) by marconi.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id UAA12959; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:16:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:18:07 -0600 (MDT) From: ML Duke X-Sender: mlduke@concentric.net To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Microsoft Divorce Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quite a while back a questions thread started on the order of "what does everybody actually _do_" with their FBSD systems? With a need to send Word Perfect, wordcrap or whatever format compatible documents to clients all over the country who so far are all running $mscrash--the divorce took awhile but is complete. Corel Word Perfect Personal Edition 8 for Linux took me over the final hurdle. For $57 shipping and book included--well, not much of a book but there is print on the pages--this reasonably powerful program that is better than wordcrap will save files in many formats including those requiring the dreaded "DOC". It's also better than StarOfice, in my judgement and within the scope of a limited comparison period. It's also Y2K compliant including a spreadsheet. Decided to post this because, had I seen a similar message nearly 2 years ago at the beginning of the uphill climb, I would have been greatly encouraged--hope it does something similar for someone else. ML Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message