From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 28 23:14: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A0D37B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5167D43E4A for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:14:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lomifeh@earthlink.net) Received: from [68.39.204.200] (bgp587257bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.204.200]) by mtaout03.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H1L00BTVDBBX8@mtaout03.icomcast.net> for chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 02:14:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 02:14:00 -0400 From: Lawrence Sica Subject: Re: new subject- office stuff In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20020829000049.00ad4bc0@mail.storm2k.wsonline.net> To: RichardH , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 08/29/02 02:05 AM, "RichardH" wrote: > Here's a new subject. As far as "office" suites, any recommends? Openoffice > still seems buggy and all that is said is "patch it" not alot else. Star is > now pay, basically looking for something that will do "word" docs, not > really concerned about excel, PP, etc. Does KDE office suite convert to MS > crap in any way?? Just need to read them if possible, can send as plain > text so no problem there. If openoffice is "fixed" what patches, etc. need > to be done in what order, etc. (seems to me if it is "fixed" it should not > need to be patched, sounds like MS crap) > Openoffice would be nice, ive used it on Solaris, not on FreeBSD. Koffice does do word docs I cant say how well though. Catdoc will extract text from word docs, it is in the ports. Comes with a viewer too. As an aside I find it ironic that office v.x for the mac is a better quality product than ms office for windows. At least from my use it seems to be. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message