From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 16 22:22:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E6937BB93; Tue, 16 May 2000 22:22:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [62.6.101.160] (helo=parish.my.domain) by neodymium with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12rmOq-0007Aq-00; Tue, 16 May 2000 19:49:00 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01244; Tue, 16 May 2000 19:48:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 19:48:26 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: David Gilbert Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU, freebsd-emulators@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 Message-ID: <20000516194825.H233@parish> References: <14624.35092.234693.852141@trooper.velocet.net> <200005152346.QAA11498@freeway.dcfinc.com> <14624.44959.656398.461558@trooper.velocet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <14624.44959.656398.461558@trooper.velocet.net>; from dgilbert@velocet.ca on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:17:03PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:17:03PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Chad" == Chad R Larson writes: > > Chad> As I recall, David Gilbert wrote: > >> I must say that I'm dissapointed that I can't run it. > > Chad> This is older hat, but I've had WordPerfect 8 running on a > Chad> 2.2.8-STABLE system under Linux emulation since Dec, 1998. > > Chad> Has anyone tried to evaluate pros and cons of the various office > Chad> suites? > > Chad> 1) Applixware - native > > Applixware is a good but somewhat immature product. I have run it > both under linux emulation and under native code. While it's a good > basic package, it tends to fall down if your needs are complex. > > The programability is cool. I could see getting into it if the > spreadsheet was a little more featureful (or maybe we just havn't > found the features yet). I must say that Applixware is the best > behaved X application of its type, if that's anything to go on. > > Chad> 2) StarOffice - linux > > I must admit that I should take another look at this. My earlier > impression was that it was kludgy. I don't know if it has improved. > Works very well, just a bit (lot) slow. > Chad> 3) WordPerfect - linux > > I still use WordPerfect 8. There is no "office" to it, but > WordPerfect 8 for linux runs well and is a featureful product. > Works OK here too, except that it gives "An error occurred opening the file" when trying to open a file on a mounted FAT16 partition (a fix of making the mount dir all lower-case worked in 3.x, but doesn't in 4.0 ) > Now... I havn't even been able to get Corel Office 2000 running on > Debian yet, so I'm not impressed. > > Chad> 4) anything - Wine > > It's impressive that Excel almost runs. I havn't really tried Word > since WordPerfect fills my current needs. > Word 97 seems to work fairly well under wine http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/word97_screen_shot.jpg > Chad> 5) ??? > > Someone mentioned koffice? What's the spreadsheed engine? Last I > tried gnumeric, I was nonplussed. > > Dave. > > -- > ============================================================================ > |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | > |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | > |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | > =========================================================GLO================ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message