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From: Ron Stodden
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:00

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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 00:12:08 +1000 Gordon Hubbard wrote:

> In a recent product review, SCO World declared StarOffice "better than
> MS Office", and with "No crashing and no waiting, the only reason people
> are still using other office packages is they haven't tried StarOffice
> yet!" (June/July 1998, page 34)

Really?   I wanted a Linux word processor that would import and export 
Windows Word documents (Word 7, I think).    StarOffice 4.0 stops at Word 
6.   I downloaded all 54 Megabytes, installed it, found it too slow in 32 
Mb so upgraded my hardware to 64Mb RAM, then tried reading a Word 7 
document with it - "read error, not a Word 6 document".    So Star Office 
is misleadingly presented and isn't really very useful to me.

Is there a fix or upgrade anywhere?

-- 
Ron,
Using Virtual Access

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Date: 1998/08/14
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