Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 01:38:49 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014449929.13fb95@mired.org> To: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility Message-ID: <15472.44937.241831.56766@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <42808873@toto.iv>
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D. Michael McFarland <dmmcf@uiuc.edu> types: > So what's my question? Given that I'm willing to put a little money > and more than a little effort into getting it going, what have people > found is the most MS-compatible, robust application of this sort? I'd say StarOffice. I use Applixware as an Office suite myself, but it doesn't rate very high on the MS-compatible scale, and it's not clear that the FreeBSD version has a future. > I have used StarOffice a little under both Linux and FreeBSD, but > recent versions (as of a few months ago) don't play well with > XFree86 v. 4 on my laptop (an IBM T-22 running STABLE). 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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