From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 12 21:05:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22080 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 21:05:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net (porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net [206.64.4.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22073 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 21:05:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA06134; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 23:58:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 23:58:58 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net To: Andrew Kenneth Milton cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Applixware In-Reply-To: <199811130432.OAA18497@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > I'd be willing to pay for Applixware if it has support for new filters > the next time MS changes their word format (again). It's very hard to > explain to clients to use Lowest Common Denominator (well for them) > when attaching documents. > Just hoping to elicit a chuckle... I recently asked for several quotes on HP-UX PA-RISC boxen. I was sent word documents. I replied, "What makes you think I want/can read this format." I was then sent RTF documents. I reconsidered buying from the vendor. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message