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  From: Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au>
  To  : Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 19:41:06 +0900

Re: star office disaster on horizon

At 02:19 AM 22/9/99 +0930, you wrote:
>Topic:  Reliance on Star Office could be dangerous.
<snip>
>The alternative MS-format conduits seem to be
>
>Applixware
>Koffice
>....

>....not much else.

And not even these, SFAIK.  The Applixware demo could not handle my .wmf
clipart files (of which I have heaps).  While Koffice might, Kwords
page=frame approach makes MS compatibility unlikely.

>There's a real vulnerability here. Since there's a big momentum
>tied up in MS-format files and human skills, it's really
>important to find out how to survive the withdrawal
>of SO from the free market.

Amen to that!

Would Wordperfect 8 do the job for WP and maybe simple DTP, and save files
in MS Word format?

Brian
Brian Astill,  Visiting Research Fellow
Flinders University Institute of International Education

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