Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:55:34 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Star Office 5 on FreeBSD Message-ID: <199809202155.QAA13753@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 01:59:53 %2B1200." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980921015038.5955D-100000@aniwa.sky>
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Andrew McNaughton writes: > On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Arnout Boer wrote: > > > For some of my work and study related stuff I get lots > > of attachments in Office 97. > > Star Office 5 should handle that correctly! > > So.. anybody experience with getting the beta to work on FreeBSD > > hate to leave BSD to Linux just because of some software > > issues. > > www.cdrom.com is advertising a soon to be released port of using > Applixware to FreeBSD. Does anyone have experience with Applixware on > other platforms, or know anything about the port? Nope. I backordered a copy sight unseen. > I'm a bit wary of buying it too early in case of bugs, and it sounds > pretty resource intensive, but the discussion on the redhat applix list > seems like many people prefer it to Star Office. Bugs, smugs. Didn't even ask about the upgrade policy. Didn't think I needed to. If its bad broken, WC will make it right. I did visit the RedHat site before back ordering my Applixware from WC. Appears there is a "regular" and a "pro" version. The main difference is the "pro" version does Microsoft formats. Or maybe its "more Microsoft formats." Seems like $100 and $250 were the prices. Am offline and quoting from memory a couple of months old. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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