From maine@cello.qnet.com Wed May 24 02:51:48 2000 Received: from cello.qnet.com (56k-palm-03-21.dial.qnet.com [209.221.196.180]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id CAA66034 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 02:51:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from maine@cello.qnet.com) Received: (from maine@localhost) by cello.qnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA00894; Tue, 23 May 2000 17:52:47 -0700 From: Richard Maine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14635.10207.707342.52106@vega.qnet.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 17:52:47 -0700 (PDT) To: "WG5 members (list)" Subject: (SC22WG5.1801) Use of Word to distribute documents In-Reply-To: <200005231338.PAA63787@dkuug.dk> References: <200005221523.RAA60062@dkuug.dk> <200005231338.PAA63787@dkuug.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid Lawrie Schonfelder writes: > staroffice product that can read and write word > format documents perfectly well. sed /perfectly/marginally/ I use it. Its better than having to shut down everything I was doing and reboot into windows, but "perfectly" is a rather large stretch. Its also quite a hog. Staroffice is a large part of the reason I gave away my dual cpu 170 mHz Sun box (sorry, Keith) in favor of a new PC. Staroffice was too slow to be acceptable for routine use on the Sun box (and I couldn't get enough money for a faster Sun box, but could scrounge enough for a PC running linux). With the PC, I can run staroffice with acceptable (though certainly not great) response times, but it still produces lots of strange artifacts - far from "Perfect". -- Richard Maine maine@qnet.com