Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:02:42 -0800 (PST) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Charlie Roots <osiris2002@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELETING WINDOWS 95, Please Help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971214235631.27801A-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19971215045744.16336.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>
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On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Charlie Roots wrote: > I need BADLY a descent and FREE word procesor to help me write my > essays, and don't tell me xword becuase it is highly unstable and > always crashing, and Formating is ugly. > I also need help on Printing Graphics on FreeBSD, I don't mean I will > be printing Images or pictures, no Just formatted Documents, on a DOT > MATRIX printer. Caldera (www.caldera.com) puts out StarOffice, which is a comercial Linux product, but has a free trial (and/or educational liscence). So far I like it and its interface, but it is horridly slow but reads and writes Word6, rtf, and a few other formats. It reminds me of a 486/20 running Win95 (I'm using a p180). It takes like three minutes (even with the latest Linux emulation hacks) to start up. WordPerfect has a Linux port of Wp 6 and 7 (I'm downloading 7 at the moment), and it has its own printer drivers, the *nix ports are at www.sdcorp.com. There's also ApplixWare. If you print to a postscript file, then you can use ghostscript to print to any epson compatable dot matrix printer (like my kxp-1124), albeit at a very low resolution (my kxp does 360 squared, but epsons don't so...). There's also emacs *grin*. I for one would love a native FreeBSD port of some decent word processor. So far I'm wishing I still had Win95 for text processing. > Please FreeBSD guys, Help me to get rid of Windows 95. - alex
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