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Todd wrote:
> I would like to hear peoples experiences with Applixware 4.3. I've tried
> the latest staroffice, besides being really slow(intel 166mmx, 64megs ram,
> static version of staroffice), it segv's on me often. For now, I'm still
> rebooting into win95 to use msword.. also, has anyone tried wordperfect
> for linux? how's the beta of version 7? (www.sdcorp.com)

 I have tried both Worperfect 6.0 and Applixware 4.2. Both are
reasonaby fast, never crash, stable as well known Windows
WordPerfect 6.0 ( or better).  WordPerfect has GUI looking like
MS-Windows, Applix rather like framemaker. Boths have lots of
fonts, can handle big files, Applix seems to be faster and it
seems, that for Applix one cen get more filters for handling
foreign text format.

Spredsheet
   WordPerfect (actually Caldera Office) comes with NExS, which
is estabilished, very good Unix Spreadsheet, that ignores Excel
format.
   Applix is about on the same level, but accepts at least
Excel 4.0, 4.1, 5.0. Also, Applix can be updated real-time by
data read for instance from the WWW.

Mailer.
    Caldera Office uses very good Zmail. It has installable
plugins for various formats, very good mailbox management.
Works on standard mailbx format, creates its own history file.
    The Applix seems to be about as good, some GUI functions
could be better, though. Does not work with standard mail fomat.
The mailboxes must be imported to internal format, but can be
exported back to standard format.

Graphics, Presentation Manager, Database, GUI Macros, HTML editor
come only with Applix, Caldera office does not have them.

Applix seems to be more integrated, but also mor hungry for
colors. In 256bit/pixel server, if you already run Netscape,
the Applix will by default come up in gray scale, which does
not look as nice.

   Applixware also offers $80 Student edition, which should not
have Applix Builder (GUI Macro Editor) and does not export
MSWord of Wordperfect file formats, only ASCII, HTML and RTF.
Applixware also runs in 11 Unix platforms, WinNT and Win95.

 Applixware seems to be somewhat better choice.

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