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Re: [COMMERCIAL] Half Price StarOffice for Linux!

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From: Michael Block
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

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Subject: Re: [COMMERCIAL] Half Price StarOffice for Linux!
Date: 1998/08/15
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