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  From: Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 11:40:16 +0900

Re: Star Office

Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:07:06 +0900
To: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
At 22:25 1/09/99 +0930, you wrote:
>The reason people like SO is because it is free, and because
>it can read/write MS format documents to a limited extent.
>It is not fully compatible at all.

Que?  OK, SO5.1 can't handle Word 97 diagrams very well.  However, it's
compatability IS very good indeed.
If people are obliged to produce output in MSOffice formats, could you
please offer another Linux alternative?

>The alternatives are Applixware, Word Perfect, and one or two
>other things which are underway.

Both of which cost money, and niether of which is MS compatible.  One
problem I found with Applixware was that it could not use any of my
reasonably extensive CGM and WMF clipart.  Don't know about Wordperfect.
 
In a more perfect world, I'd use LYX or xEmacs as my word processor.
Then again, in a more perfect world *nix output formats would be the
universal standard and MS would be obliged to comply.  :-)

Brian 

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