From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 0:42: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.ehsrealtime.com (eris.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD6D37B402 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:41:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from set.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.197]) by clientmail.ehsrealtime.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 16cj0G-000IaG-01; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:18:28 +0000 Received: from waynep by set.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.34 #3) id 16cjNj-0000C2-00; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:42:43 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility References: <15472.44937.241831.56766@guru.mired.org> Date: 18 Feb 2002 08:42:42 +0000 In-Reply-To: <15472.44937.241831.56766@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Mike Meyer" writes: > If the only reason you're running it is to read documents from people > who are to lazy to convert them to a non-proprietary format, just go > back to running the older versions of StarOffice until you get a > document that it doesn't understand because one of them upgraded and > forgot to save it in the old version so that everyone else has to > ugprade to read it. > > Of course, the best thing to do if you're collaborating on a document > is to load it into *your* favorite application for dealing with > documents of that type, do your work, and send it back to them in that > applications format. A truly fitting sabotage. I gotta weigh in on this one. -- - Wayne Pascoe | Profanity is the inevitable linguistic freebsd@molemanarmy.com | crutch of the inarticulate http://www.molemanarmy.com | motherfucker - Bruce Sherrod | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message