Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:04:22 -0600 (CST) From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.brewich.com> To: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex) Cc: osiris2002@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELETING WINDOWS 95, Please Help Message-ID: <199712151704.LAA01536@main.brewich.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971214235631.27801A-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> from Alex at "Dec 15, 97 00:02:42 am"
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Alex wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Charlie Roots wrote: > > > I need BADLY a descent and FREE word procesor to help me write my > > essays, and don't tell me xword becuase it is highly unstable and > > always crashing, and Formating is ugly. > > I also need help on Printing Graphics on FreeBSD, I don't mean I will > > be printing Images or pictures, no Just formatted Documents, on a DOT > > MATRIX printer. > > Caldera (www.caldera.com) puts out StarOffice, which is a comercial Linux > product, but has a free trial (and/or educational liscence). So far I > like it and its interface, but it is horridly slow but reads and writes > Word6, rtf, and a few other formats. It reminds me of a > 486/20 running Win95 (I'm using a p180). It takes like three > minutes (even with the latest Linux emulation hacks) to start > up. WordPerfect has a Linux port of Wp 6 and 7 (I'm downloading 7 at the > moment), and it has its own printer drivers, the *nix ports are at > www.sdcorp.com. Wordperfect for Linux works like a charm under FreeBSD 3.0-current. I got the demo off of sdcorps' ftp site, did the install and fired it up. A dream come true...:) I think the cost to register it is like $245 or there abouts (I would have to check my CC records). And its fast. --SNIP-- > > > Please FreeBSD guys, Help me to get rid of Windows 95. > > - alex > > > Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@main.brewich.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team
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