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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What would it take to replace MS Office?
Date: 14 Oct 1996 14:37:59 GMT
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <53rtd0$cf5@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu>,
pleung@cs.buffalo.edu (Patrick Leung) writes:
> wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de wrote:
>: You might want to have a look at the Andrew toolkit, a graphical
>
> I had tried installing Andrew a while ago... but it didn't work out for me
> because I didn't have enough free space left on my hard drive for all the
> source code. So, I couldn't do a compile. ;-))
>
> I also tried the precompiled binaries, but that didn't work out for me
> either.
I got it compiled, then recompiled because the default is not to produce
most of the binaries. I ended up with an application that allowed some
basic word-processing stuff, wouldn't print, and came with loads of
symbolic links that (I assume) were supposed to do other things... things
like "org" - oh great ! An organizer... *NOT*.
It's still installed, taking up *lots* of space and providing no
functionality. I guess I havn't given it enough time - just about
4 days.
> Anyhow... for those of you who prefer a commerical word processor,
> I suggest Applixware by RedHat.
[....]
> Oh... and by the way, if you order this month, you can get Applixware for a
> reduced price of $199. And if you're a student, you can get it at the
> academic price of $79.
[....]
> I'm NOT exactly sure if there is a FreeBSD version of Applixware... but I'm
> sure it would not be difficult for RedHat to port it to FreeBSD if that's
> not already done. You'll have to either search through their page, or
> call.
I'd be willing to rebuild it. Do you get the source the $199 ?
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....