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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!news.aloha.net!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!lehi.kuentos.guam.net!news From: crobato@kuentos.guam.net Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: 7 Feb 1997 03:43:32 GMT Organization: Kuentos Lines: 41 Message-ID: <5de8d4$vc@lehi.kuentos.guam.net> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <E50rGo.K3n@nonexistent.com> <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com> <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org> <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> Reply-To: crobato@kuentos.guam.net NNTP-Posting-Host: bunita-108.kuentos.guam.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.9d - NLS Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156372 comp.os.linux.networking:67397 comp.os.linux.setup:95663 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5882 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2277 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51992 comp.os.os2.advocacy:265909 In <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com>, vss@shell2.ba.best.com (V.S. Senthilkumar) writes: >Kaleb S. KEITHLEY (kaleb@osf.org) wrote: >: bill davidsen wrote: >: > >: > In article <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote: >: > >: > | What would make Unix' future? Scott MacNeily can whine about >: > | Microsoft desktops wasting monumental amounts of admin time and >: > | energy if he likes, but unix will die without applications. >: > >: > UNIX doesn't have applications. > >: Unix doesn't have applications??? What are you talking about? >: Do you mean Linux doesn't have any applications? > >: The Open Systems Software Directory lists nearly 10,000 applications. >: Sun's Catalyst catalog lists over 12,000 applications. > >: There's plenty of applications for Unix. > > > >Tell me a cheap and good word processing application for unix? > > > >-vs senthilkumar How about WordPerfect for Linux? Rgds, Chris Famous People on the Day Windows 95 is Launched--- Neil Armstrong---"One Small Fortune for Bill Gates, One Giant Leap backward for Mankind." President Roosevelt---"This date shall live in infamy." *** crobato@kuentos.guam.net *** TKS for the Contributions.