From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 11:53:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com (smtp017.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9E8937B423 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 11:53:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from j166.kch20.jaring.my (HELO as2.kptn.org) (161.142.55.180) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 May 2001 18:53:43 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 02:59:04 +0800 From: Alvin Sim X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.52f) Reply-To: Alvin Sim Organization: n/a X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1111231159.20010513025904@yahoo.co.uk> To: Mike Meyer Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re[4]: StarOffice 5.1 and FreeBSD 4.3-S In-Reply-To: <15101.28964.687120.331795@guru.mired.org> References: <15101.28964.687120.331795@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sunday, May 13, 2001, 01:21:40 AM, Mike Meyer wrote: yes, i've read your 'WP' reviews and find it very informative and useful, thus the experimenting on various WP (and spreadsheet) from the ports. so far, i've only had abiword (and abs spreadsheet and bluefish) installed and find it (abiword) 'ok' but like you mentioned, it (abiword) lacks quite a number of features that i would like to use, mainly formatting of tables, layout structure... you get the picture. as i've mentioned, since i have the so5.1 cd lying around, i thought i would like to install that and test it. but so far from reading various archives regarding staroffice, it doesnt look so good and needs _a lot_ of tweaking/hacking needed. (and 'to add salt to the wound', i dont programme :)) i did (after reading your review before this) and am still considering applixware but U$99 is a lot when converted to where i live (hint: 4x more, which is not good :/), but acceptable if not for personal use. thanks for the suggestions. i'll keep on looking/searching a little further before i make that decision to 'spend' :) MM> Alvin Sim types: >> fyi, i am running 4.3-S and the only word processor i have is abiword >> but it lacks table support, which is why the only alternative i have >> is applixware (not free), and staroffice. MM> I think ApplixWare is well worth the money. See http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/reviews/FreeBSD-WP.html > for a look at MM> many of the WP packages available for FreeBSD, including both MM> StarOffice and Applixware Office; and http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/reviews/AO/ > for an MM> application-by-application review of Applixware Office, though I still MM> need to do some work on the later. MM>