From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed May 17 9:55:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from guardian.sftw.com (guardian.sftw.com [209.157.37.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F63337B9A4 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 09:55:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Received: from yoda.sftw.com (yoda.sftw.com [209.157.37.211]) by guardian.sftw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA68668; Wed, 17 May 2000 09:55:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Received: from sftw.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yoda.sftw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12952; Wed, 17 May 2000 09:55:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Message-ID: <3922CEF7.390EB284@sftw.com> Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:55:19 -0700 From: Nick Sayer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Roberts Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 References: <200005160032.KAA09256@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gary Roberts wrote: > > Has anyone tried to evaluate pros and cons of the various office > > suites? > > > > 1) Applixware - native > > 2) StarOffice - linux > > 3) WordPerfect - linux > > 4) anything - Wine > > 5) ??? 5) anything - vmware -- I have Applixware for Linux running under the linuxulator (I bought it before it was available natively), and it's pretty good as a standalone word processor. I don't use anything else in it. The only time it annoys me is when I try and import MS documents, which invariably fall apart. But I blame Microsoft for that, since they morph the .doc format frequently to screw everyone not running Office. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message