Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:43:30 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014504211.35ab10@mired.org> To: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility Message-ID: <15473.33682.353887.609959@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <34125683@toto.iv>
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D. Michael McFarland <dmmcf@uiuc.edu> types: > "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014449929.13fb95@mired.org> writes: > > If the only reason you're running it is to read documents from people > > who are to lazy to convert them to a non-proprietary format, > They're not lazy or unwilling to cooperate, they're just convinced > that MS Word has won the document file format wars and we'd all be > better off saving and exchanging all our work as .doc files. They > readily admit Word's inferiority--in fact, they often lament it. Ok, I replied once, but I want to add a word. And more information. MS Word has won the desktop document production war. It hasn't won the file format war - because it isn't a fixed file format. I'm sure even *they* have been bitten by having someone using a newer version send them a document that they then couldn't read. D. Michael McFarland <dmmcf@uiuc.edu> types: > Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> writes: > > Is Wordperfect the answer ? > > I don't know if the Linux version of it runs on FreeBSD, but I guess it > > should (I didn't check the ports). Unlike Word, WP doesn't change it's > > internal structure every 5 minutes, I believe it handles Word > > documents...just a thought. > Good idea. I'll look into it. WordPerfect 7 ran on FreeBSD. It was even in the ports tree for a while. StarOffice generally dealt with Word documents better than WordPerfect. If you've got to deal with powerpoint files, I don't think there's any other choice than StarOffice, though I haven't looked at the office suite built around WordPerfect. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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