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Date:      Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:16:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>
To:        Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
Cc:        advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, richard@jezebel.demon.co.uk, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Subject:   Re: Applixware
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990219211648.cpiazza@home.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902192153330.10566-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>

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On 20-Feb-99 Brett Taylor wrote:
> Hi,
> 

<snippity snip>

>> What I'd really like to see is a piece of presentation software like
>> (or better than) Power Point.  Even the UNIX folk around here do live
>> notebook presentations under Windows to get power point slides--doing
>> presentations under FreeBSD with some spiffy piece of software would
>> gain followers instantly.
> 
> I have no idea how this compares to PowerPoint but there's a Linux based
> program called Magic Point.  It definitely runs under FreeBSD - I've
> played their demo.  I was going to make a port of this but writing my
> thesis keeps getting in the way!  By April maybe I'll be back to actually
> messing around on the computer...
> 
> Here's the web page for Magic Point:
> 
>       http://www.Mew.org/mgp/
> 

Hmm, slick software :).  Should be quite an easy port though, it compiles
cleanly without any mucking.

-- 
Chris Piazza   Abbotsford, BC, Canada
cpiazza@home.net
finger norn@norn.ca.eu.org for PGP key


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