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Article #74027Re: GNU Applications
From: Daniel Edward Lovinger
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1991 16:53
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1991 16:53
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david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
> In Reply to this Note From: <Joe Buck>
> >
> >In article <9107132248.AA10375@wubios> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
> >>The two most important computer applications today are Word Processing
> >>and Spreadsheets. The GNU project is remiss in not making these
> >>programs a top priority. -David-
> >
> >There is a Gnu spreadsheet, Oleo. And while there is no WYSIWYG
> >word processing program, there is Emacs together with groff and
> >Ghostscript, which allow for typesetting.
>
> I have asked the FSF repeatedly to let me try a copy of OLEO, and the
> only answer I have received is that the author has it in an unknown
> state of development.
Somehow you have managed to miss the alpha release
announcements for Oleo, which is currently avaliable on
prep.ai.mit.edu. While it may not be a finished product, you cannot
accuse the FSF of not allowing access to it.
(in /pub/gnu)
-rw-r--r-- 1 14910 wheel 276688 May 6 14:41 oleo-0.03.2.tar.Z
Dan Lovinger Computing & Comunications Carnegie Mellon U.
Internet: dl2n+@andrew.cmu.edu Bitnet: dl2n+%andrew.cmu.edu@carnegie
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,deb8597d97cb3d91 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-15 00:25:25 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!dl2n+ From: dl2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Edward Lovinger) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: GNU Applications Message-ID: <wcU86ZG00awRI_Qplc@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 14 Jul 91 16:53:57 GMT References: <1991Jul14.012741.21737@agate.berkeley.edu>, <9107140814.AA24956@wubios> Distribution: gnu Organization: Software Development, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: <9107140814.AA24956@wubios>