* Miles Bader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> (2) a giant bloated whale, but actually seems to work pretty well for > >> light word-processing duties and reading .doc files I get in the mail > > > > Maybe you should try abiword. > > Yeah, I used to use abiword back in the day, but it was always > _horribly_ flaky -- it crashed a lot, even on simple documents, and > seemed to randomly reformat text in odd ways based on the phase of the > moon.
I have had this same experience. I can recall some time back and everyone seemed to be raving about abiword and its meagre footprint. I couldn't really use it though as it would crash about three minutes into every document I would work on. And not when doing something really, but just inputting text. Very flaky indeed. I wonder if it has improved since. I may have to try it just to see. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
