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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!realtime.net!news From: dhbrown@bga.com (Dave Brown) 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: A suggestion to Linux/Bsd Developers Date: 16 Feb 1997 02:38:32 GMT Organization: DBAssociates Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5e5rv8$qe4@news3.realtime.net> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <slrn5fsqhn.58l.dmcook@mozart.cts.com> <3306f2e9.2166849@news.cyberion.com> <330611C6.7BD13AE@indiana.edu> <5e5lk8$m7l@web.nmti.com> Reply-To: dhbrown@bga.com NNTP-Posting-Host: jake-4a.ip.realtime.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-RTcode: 09dc6d6533281b20e60673a2 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:158452 comp.os.linux.networking:68456 comp.os.linux.setup:97371 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6001 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2498 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52969 comp.os.os2.advocacy:267675 In article <5e5lk8$m7l@web.nmti.com>, peter@nmti.com says... > >Reading and writing Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, and other commonly >used wordprocessor file formats? Bingo! That would be great. Incidentally, I looked at the Star Office screen snaps (or was it Applixware), and thought they looked a little funky. No offense intended. Incidentally, I think I paid $89 for MSWord 6 (competitive upgrade--I forget the miserable wp I turned in to get the upgrade). I'd pay another $89 to get Word 6 for Linux (or OS/2, for that matter, although IBM Works gets by). Until then, I'm stuck keeping a Windows machine around. -- Dave Brown Austin, TX