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On Wed, 14 May 1997 01:34:35 GMT, Neil MacIntosh (snark@bigpond.com) wrote:
: In article <5lb46h$jes$4@otis.netspace.net.au>, mheath@netspace.net.au (Mark Heath) wrote:
: >Manfred Bartz (mbartz@werple.net.au) wrote:
: >: > 4. Does Red Hat and Slackware CDs include some extra apps such as word
: >: > processing?
: >: No, but professional text processing using TeX, LaTeX, Metafont.
: >: If you are prepared to spend some money, Wordperfect V7 is coming out
: >: for Linux this month.  <http://www.sdcorp.com/wplinux7.htm>
: >What about the Star Office apps?  I was under the assumption these were 
: >like the BG95 Office suite?
: 
: There is also the Applixware office suite available through RedHat.
: I haven't used it but the specs look pretty good.

We have applix, and got it at an OK price. The opinions of it in the house
vary, it does the job (well) but takes a bit of learning to use it to its
full potential. If you want a powerful GUI based suite, go for it. If you
just want a powerful word processor, learn TeX & XEmacs (or some other
great text editor).

This is my opinion, nothing else.
Brad.
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Bradley Purton.				purton@minyos.its.rmit.edu.au
Human Biology Honours.                  http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~purton
RMIT. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.      "Such is life." -Ned Kelly.