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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.idt.net!news.ios.com!usenet From: Bryan Seigneur <freds@gramercy.ios.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 01:31:17 -0400 Organization: SONETECH, Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <318848A5.8935D26@gramercy.ios.com> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <4l1d4i$12qu@news.missouri.edu> <NELSON.96Apr17100753@ns.crynwr.com> <4l6pbd$pgc@sidhe.memra.com> <4lg8na$isk@news.missouri.edu> <ADA7136B96681614C4@rvr0148.deltanet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-49.ts-4.dc.idt.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; Linux 1.3.20 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22777 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:899 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3606 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3462 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18538 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47692 Brad Wilson wrote: > > In article <4lg8na$isk@news.missouri.edu>, > rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt) wrote: > > >So what are the odds that a) System 7 support can be made string enough > >that I can run MS Word 6.0 and Excel 5.0 for the Macintosh on my Linux > >box and b) that this powerful Executor can be packaged free with Linux > >distributions? > > > > Good grief, Word 6 doesn't even like to run on my mac, seriously buggy > extensions lead to frequent crashes. Although, of course, there are other > word processors avalable for the mac. Speaking of which, Word Perfect 3.5 > for the mac includes a Word 6 translator, couldn't that be taken apart and > re-engineered for Linux? > > brad Maybe WP 6.0 for Linux has a Word 6 translator, too, huh? Bryan -- Y W8 4MS? LNX4FREE!