From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 14:54:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA23916 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 14:54:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA23796 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 14:52:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA05385; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:20:45 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19971216092045.30501@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:20:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Alex Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELETING WINDOWS 95, Please Help References: <19971215192331.36642@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Alex on Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 06:38:43AM -0800 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 06:38:43AM -0800, Alex wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> StarOffice is very hungry for memory. Judging by the times you >> mention, I'd guess you have 16 MB of memory. Increase that to 32 or >> 48 MB, and it will be dramatically faster: it won't crawl any more, >> it'll just be slow. > > No, I have 64mb ;-) And no I'm not gonna try to get 32 more. 64 MB will do. >> I hate StarOffice. It's just like Microsoft Word, the screen is full >> of little unrecognizable pictures, and the editor is really weak. But >> if that's what you're used to, and you can't make the step to a >> separate editor and formatter, then it might be for you. > > I like it because it's graphical and somewhat less awkward than emacs > (for me). I hate it because it's graphical and much more awkward than Emacs (for me :-) > If I had my way, I'd like to see a [free] version of WP 5.1 (for > DOS) ported over to some *nix with long file name and perhaps lpr > and ghostscript support. Rumor has it that was written in > assembly. ;-) I can't believe that. I used to write a lot in assembler in the old days, but I don't know anybody who's written anything significant in assembler on an -86 platform. Greg