From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 11 18:06:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06594 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:06:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat0574.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.190.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06589 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:06:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA28054; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:05:33 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:05:33 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Brian Feldman cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice-5.0... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Moved to Chat... On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Brian Feldman wrote: > > Keep up the good work Brian...the longer I can avoid installing a > > Linux system to get its commercial apps, the happier I will be. With > > Thanks! Positive response makes work worth doing :) Anything to stem the grow tsunami called Linux is worth doing :) > > attitudes like "don't waste your time" vs "its being worked on", I fear > > that that day is fast approaching where I'll have to buy a third machine > > just to keep from having to run Windows to get the good apps :( > > > > Happily, I've been able to be entirely Windows-free! StarOffice 4.0 (no > service pack level) completes my needs :) 5.0's gonna work soon... I haven't had a chance to see it yet, but the Linux guys at work say that 5.0 gives full Office97 functionality? PowerPoint demonstrations with full animiations and the works? Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message