From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 22 10:52:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23266 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:52:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-gw2.pacbell.net (mail-gw2.pacbell.net [206.13.28.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23260 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:52:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevink@mindless.com) From: kevink@mindless.com Received: from hellhole (ppp-207-214-212-140.sntc01.pacbell.net [207.214.212.140]) by mail-gw2.pacbell.net (8.8.8/8.7.1+antispam) with SMTP id KAA22205 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980821214713.00697ad0@pop.netaddress.com> X-Sender: gekk0@pop.netaddress.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 21:47:13 -0700 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: StarOffice & wordperfect In-Reply-To: <35DEFE23.7EBA@concentric.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Have you tried Star Office? there is a port for it in /usr/ports/editors I'm not totally sure if it handles wordperfect docs, but I think it does. Does anyone else know? At 11:21 AM 8/22/98 -0600, you wrote: >Marty Poulin wrote: > >Duke here. I've been browsing/lurcking the list for a long time, >and this question is one near and dear. I'd _love_ to trash $ms for >good but one little problem prevents: I've got to send WordPerfect >compatible documents to my printing/client pick up/pay the bill >contact in Anchorage, and not infrequently send completed work to >clients ranging from California to New York. > >I'm aware of the Corel Suite for X, which has a whole lot more >than I want to pay for in order to merely produce typeset >documents. > >Any suggestions would be appreciated. Oh. I'm running 2.2.6-RELEASE >on a 4G, DOS/w95 on a 514M. > >ML Duke > ------------- gekk0@usa.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message