[aclug-L] Re: re compusa and linux applications

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would argue that WP8 is better than Star Office... making SO the third
best thing :-)


On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:12:23PM -0500, James G. wrote:
> Since MS does not make a version of Word for Linux, the next best thing would 
> be
> StarOffice.
> 
> See:
> www.sun.com   (free download ...  50 - 60 MB)
> 5.2 should be out soon if not already. It has lots of improvements.
> 
> Like MS Word, StarOffice isn't small. We can't have our cake and eat it too 
> all the
> time... at least its cheaper.
> 
> 
> Michael Holmes wrote:
> 
> > Excuse me, I meant that I wanted to work on them in the doc format, as it 
> > would
> > lose all the formatting going to text, then back.  M$ word, has an ability 
> > to
> > save in rtf, html, and text, it strips off all the formatting and I am 
> > wanting
> > to keep all that.
> 
> 
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