Re: Word DOC's (BIG Message)
From: Piotr Keplicz (keplicz@bigfoot.com)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:35:56 +0100
david mertz <quilty@ibm.net>:
: 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.
Yep, a *great* application, without a doubt. I once installed it
under Linux (PII with 64 MB RAM). After several attempts to open any
Word document (and several reboots as well) I did a quick 'rm -rf' on
StarOffice's directory. I'm not a fan of Microsoft's software
yet I can run MS Office on my 486 with 8 megs of RAM...
Piotr.