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Article #6Re: [COMMERCIAL] Half Price StarOffice for Linux!
From: Michael Block
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 00:00
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:12:18, Ron Stodden <rmstodd@ibm.net> wrote: &&&>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? If you buy SO4 you get a free upgrade to SO5 whenever it comes out (could be ages) which will have a filter for word &&&> &&&>-- &&&>Ron, &&&>Using Virtual Access &&&> &&&> &&&> Regards Michael Block ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I AM BILL GATES OF BORG STANDARDISATION IS IRRELEVANT USABILITY IS IRRELEVANT CHOICE IS IRRELEVANT PREPARE TO BE ASSIMILATED WE ARE MICROSOFT ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ resistance is not useless, join the Warp alternative, think for yourself! http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/2265/ read about the Microsoft Shared Delusional Disorder.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,819e8b49894af517 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: 10c6bf,819e8b49894af517 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c6bf,public X-Google-Thread: 10a752,819e8b49894af517 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a752,public X-Google-Thread: 10d053,819e8b49894af517 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d053,public X-Google-Thread: 111bbe,819e8b49894af517 X-Google-Attributes: gid111bbe,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,819e8b49894af517 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: ih8.spam@dont.try.it (Michael Block) Subject: Re: [COMMERCIAL] Half Price StarOffice for Linux! Date: 1998/08/15 Message-ID: <Eptizitgfvun-pn2-e8SQ2d77oWnx@localhost> X-Deja-AN: 381319324 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <35D1A2B8.E195B583@CustomTech.com.au> <VA.000001f8.002c7baa@bigone> X-Trace: 15 Aug 1998 03:40:05 GMT, 202.135.14.144 Organization: IBM.NET X-Notice: should be reported to postmaster@ibm.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: aus.computers.os2,aus.computers.sun,aus.computers.ibm-pc,aus.ads.forsale.computers,aus.ads.forsale.computers.new,aus.computers.linux X-Complaints-To: postmaster@ibm.net