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Date:      Sun, 07 Feb 1999 01:11:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
To:        charon@freethought.org
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Elijah Kagan <elijah@xpert.com>
Subject:   Re: Reading MS Office Files.......help please...need app
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990207011133.wwoods@cybcon.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990207003430.00a34220@mail>

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Right, but I cant get to install, I have tried that. I have herd rumors that
there are people who have got it to work on FreeBSD, but I cant seem to get
past the install part. Anyone out there have it working and care to share your
secrets?

On 07-Feb-99 charon@freethought.org wrote:
> Staroffice 5.0 (the latest version) reads MS Office 97 files.  It's not in
> the ports (they have v.3.1), but you can get the Linux version from
> http://www.stardivision.com/.
> 
> 
> At 12:26 AM 2/7/99 -0800, William Woods wrote:
>>I have tried Staroffice 4.0, and It dows not read the latest office (97)
> files
>>at all.
>>
>>On 07-Feb-99 Elijah Kagan wrote:
>>> Try StarOffice....     http://www.stardivision.com
>>> 
>>> Elijah
>>> 
>>> 
>>> William Woods wrote:
>>> 
>>>> OK, I run FreeBSD current and I have WP 8.0, so I can read MS Word 97
>>>> documents
>>>> with no problem, but, what can I use to read Excell 97 and/or Access 97
>>>> files?
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>                 Charon@freethought.org
>         http://members.home.net/tuathadedanann/
> 
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> you could keep a side of meat in me for a month.  I am so 
>      hip i have difficulty seeing over my pelvis."


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E-Mail: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
Date: 07-Feb-99 / Time: 01:07:20
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