From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 24 07:26:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA13257 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:26:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from whqvax.picker.com (whqvax.picker.com [144.54.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA13252 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:26:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ct.picker.com by whqvax.picker.com with SMTP; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 10:25:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com ([144.54.57.34]) by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02709; Mon, 24 Mar 97 10:25:52 EST Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA19900; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 10:22:59 -0500 Message-Id: <19970324102259.01850@ct.picker.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 10:22:59 -0500 From: Randall Hopper To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MSWord docs... References: <8205.858809260@time.cdrom.com> <19970322183324.GD15929@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.65 In-Reply-To: <19970322183324.GD15929@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Sat, Mar 22, 1997 at 06:33:24PM +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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