Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 10:22:59 -0500 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MSWord docs... Message-ID: <19970324102259.01850@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <19970322183324.GD15929@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Sat, Mar 22, 1997 at 06:33:24PM %2B0100 References: <8205.858809260@time.cdrom.com> <19970322183324.GD15929@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch: |As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: |> What's the latest technology on previewing MSword stuff under FreeBSD? | |I've seen a utility named `catdoc' or such, that does a pretty good I too would be interested in a pointer to catdoc. |If you wanna pay money, Applixware for Linux (distributed by RedHat) |runs fairly well on FreeBSD 2.2, and can read Word and other stuff. |People keep telling me that it runs *way* faster than StarOffice. |I've even heard someone claiming it runs faster on FreeBSD than on |Linux *grin*. >From what I last heard, Applixware filters including those for MSWord are trash. StarOffice has them beat hands down, reading and writing files in word format without many problems. Randall
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