From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 20:13:09 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id UAA24822 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:13:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from tulpi.interconnect.com.au (root@tulpi.interconnect.com.au [192.189.54.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA24813 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:13:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from solsbury-hill.home (acc4-ppp1.mel.interconnect.com.au [210.8.0.65]) by tulpi.interconnect.com.au with ESMTP id PAA28194 (8.7.6/IDA-1.6 for ); Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:12:53 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost (suttonj@localhost) by solsbury-hill.home (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA15718 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 13:00:13 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 13:00:12 +1100 (EST) From: Joel Sutton X-Sender: suttonj@solsbury-hill.home Reply-To: Joel Sutton To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Applications for freeBSD In-Reply-To: <199612151550.HAA00278@papillon.lemis.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > > To me, nearly all basic computing in an office needs word processing, > > spreadsheeting and database (with programming language) > > The trouble with this kind of software is that hackers don't enjoy > writing it, so there aren't many Windows-like applications out there. If your desperate (like me :->) you could Micro-satan Word for DOS in a pcemu window. It's not wysiwyg but it's a little less painful than tex or troff etc... > The ones that are available cost money. Word Perfect is available for > SCO and, I think, Linux, and I've been told that it works well under > FreeBSD. Word Perfect for UNIX is very expensive isn't it?? $US450'ish or something like that? Cheers, Joel...