Re: Word DOC's (BIG Message)

From: Richard Steiner (rsteiner@visi.com)
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 23:17:22 -0500

Here in list.yarn, "david mertz" <quilty@ibm.net> spake unto us, saying:

>Alternately, the more-or-less freely available StarOffice does a pretty
>good job of reading those Word DOCs, also without the viruses (macros).
>That's available on a bunch of platforms, including Linux. Of course,
>downloading 30 megs just for a program to read DOCs might be excessive.
>But the thing isn't bad for a lot of other things, if you need it.

It's a lot more'n 30 megs now. :-) But Sun sells a single CD-ROM with
copies of StarOffice 5.1 for Windows, OS/2, Linux, and Solaris on it
for $9.95 + shipping. I have one, and it saved a lot of time.

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