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From: "Jason Earl" <jearl@box100.com>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 7 Apr 1997 15:14:53 GMT
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George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org> wrote in article
<E891HB.17A@oriole.sbay.org>...
> I think that is why WordPerfect for Linux is pretty much exactly like
> WordPerfect for DOS or any other platform.
> 

I realize that this doesn't really have anything to do with the thread (and
I REALLY hate to break up your holy war), but I have been meaning to ask if
you really need Caldera's OpenLinux to run their WordPerfect package, or
are they just saying that.  I would appreciate a good word from anyone who
knows.

Thanks;
-- 
Jason Earl
jearl@box100.com

"Cheaper than the Psychic Friends Network."