Re: [newbie] applixware
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 08:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of the word it's StarOffice, at least originally, but the code is open to the public to modify and improve. so -- star office is only modifyed and worked on by Sun, but open office is worked on by anyone who wants to get involved. am i right about that?? Yes, but about once a year Sun grabs the OO source back, tarts it up with some new fonts and such and presents it to the PHB's as the *new* and *improved* StarOffice ... -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] applixware
well, I'm not talking from experience here but, my understanding is that open office is the u... i can't think of the word it's StarOffice, at least originally, but the code is open to the public to modify and improve. so -- star office is only modifyed and worked on by Sun, but open office is worked on by anyone who wants to get involved. am i right about that?? i have the files to install the latest open office, but i haven't done it or tried it, simply because i have become attached to applix already and don't feel like having to go thru another conversion. by that i mean that my #1 use for my computer is writing, i am a writer. under windows i used WordPro. when converting to linux finding a word processor was my greatest need. at the time i didn't know about open office. i tried applix, star office 5.2, koffice and abiword. i decided on applix and now all my writing is in that format. if you are still looking for something you should check open office. it may be really good. i think star office is getting better better, and open office might be even better simply because it is open to anyone to contribute. it's free and you've nothing to loose. adrian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] applixware
i'm a bit late on this thread =) i've been using Applix for just over a year now. for the most part i love it. a few bugs, but i've figured out the work arounds. one disclaimer tho... one thing i don't care about is MS compatability. i haven't opened a Word file in months, and an X-Hell file doesn't even exist on my computer, so i can't say just how reliable the MS compatability is. if you don't mind spending money -- i paid $50 for it, which is about the limit of what i will pay for software -- i think it's good. of course StarOffice has gotten much better with the 6beta version. tho i haven't used it a whole lot, just played with it to see how it had changed. adrian ps -- there is a review of Applix with screen shots which i wrote on my website: http://204eastsouth.com/linux04.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] applixware
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:49:43 -0800 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: any users out there? any big pluses for it over openoffice? just curious == Not a bad suite. I use both and prefer StarOffice. I think it handles M$Office .docs (which everyone else in my building uses ;o( ) with greater ease. Applixware somethimes chokes on large Excel docs, and I've yet to successfully open a PowerPoint presentation with any significant amount of graphics. My personal preference is Staroffice despite some of its bloat. Mike -- Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there. Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, mid 16th Century _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Applixware and 7.2 / KDE2
I actually got mine fixed. My network card wasn't wasn't working properly and it was screwing up the software. I replaced the SOHO card with a 3com, reconfigured the network and it works fine. Apparently, Applix has to be able to resolve the host before it works properly. Hope this helps. BTW, the SOHO card is advertized as being supported by Linux, but even the tulip.c driver that they supply, which you have to compile and install yourself, does not work. I think I'll make another post regarding this card specifically, just to let people know. Michael On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, you wrote: ya know what... this is strange stuff. i know i use to be able to open word docs with Applix well i tried this yesterday and mine will not do it either. i don't know when it broke, but it broke. i also reinstalled Applix, didn't help. do you get an error box about localhost something something (yea, i was too dumb to write it down - of course, it's easy enuf to create again). i don't know what is going on here but it's an Applix problem for sure. i've had bugs with Applix before. i'll play around and see if i find a solution. if so i'll let ya know. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5:10:36 AM 6/6/01 I've tried it under Gnome, and KDE. I've reinstalled it twice and it just keeps failing. The first time I installed, I did not opt for the Internet update. It installed without the usual directory listing in applications. It was there, just it wasn't listed. I then reinstalled it selecting to update. It then put it into the directory listing, but still did not open word files. On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, you wrote: hi, i'm using Applix with 7.2. i don't use KDE, i run E -- but i don't see why that would make a difference. pretty strange stuff. i will try this out today and see what happens. have you tried this under another window manager to determine if it is KDE or Applix? Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:08:38 PM 6/5/01 Is anyone else out there using Applixware with KDE2? It seems to work fine on 7.1 but my laptop is running 7.2 w/ KDE2 and the import function does not work on Words. It will not open a Word doc. Any ideas besides Star Office?
Re: [newbie] Applixware or StarOffice?
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Evan Holt wrote: Hi there, I've been using Sun's StarOffice for a while and am quite pleased with it (also happy about the upcomming revision that will be comming out late summer) but then I also saw Applixware in it's shiny new box and was wondering if anyone has tried it and what they think...for just typing up casual reports and stuff..nothing heavy. Hi Evan, If you don't ask too heavy stuff, you might want to try Abiword. It is a work in progress, and the result so far I like a lot. You can get it at http://www.abisource.com paul )0(---)0( Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [[newbie] Applixware or StarOffice?]
I've used SO for over a year - it does seem bloated, not used applixware, but have you tried Gnumeric (included with Mandrake 7) and Abiword - free as a download from Abisource, it's still a work in progress but feels similar to Word and most features work. On Sun, 08 Jun 2036, you wrote: Evan Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I've been using Sun's StarOffice for a while and am quite pleased with it (also happy about the upcomming revision that will be comming out late summer) but then I also saw Applixware in it's shiny new box and was wondering if anyone has tried it and what they think...for just typing up casual reports and stuff..nothing heavy. Thanks in advance, Evan Holt == I have been using SO for over a year (even the Win version, before I tried Linux). I've been using Applixware 5 since February. SO "feels" much larger and bloated, but does a much better job of reading, converting, and managing Excel files, especially large ones. Both do a superb job of handling Word files. Neither seems capable of reading the other's docs, unless they are saved as Word format, or RTF, or some other common form. My "guess" is that you'll like whichever you get used to. They both create their own documents very capably and offer a variety of tools to help you get work done. Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [[newbie] Applixware or StarOffice?]
Evan Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I've been using Sun's StarOffice for a while and am quite pleased with it (also happy about the upcomming revision that will be comming out late summer) but then I also saw Applixware in it's shiny new box and was wondering if anyone has tried it and what they think...for just typing up casual reports and stuff..nothing heavy. Thanks in advance, Evan Holt == I have been using SO for over a year (even the Win version, before I tried Linux). I've been using Applixware 5 since February. SO "feels" much larger and bloated, but does a much better job of reading, converting, and managing Excel files, especially large ones. Both do a superb job of handling Word files. Neither seems capable of reading the other's docs, unless they are saved as Word format, or RTF, or some other common form. My "guess" is that you'll like whichever you get used to. They both create their own documents very capably and offer a variety of tools to help you get work done. Mike "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Frankilin Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Applixware
"Mike" == Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike If you don't mind downloading large files, try the demo of Mike Applixware (did you already say you did?) I tried it and Mike wasn't very impressed. However I have found that Corel Mike WordPerfect 8 is pretty decent, and the new Corel Office Mike 2000 that's going to be out mid-April seems to be quite [snip] It is shipping: http://linuxtoday.com/stories/18671.html -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 23 Feria of Lent "It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - [G.K. Chesterton, in The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21]
Re: [Re: [newbie] Applixware]
Michael Scottaline wrote: "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Big Snip p.s. yes, Star Office is nice in some ways, but I agree that it's annoying features make it less desirable than some of the other options out there. === Since the rap against it would seem to be "annoyances" as opposed to functionality, I guess it becomes a question of whether one wishes to part with US$99-$199 to rid oneself of the annoyances. SO 5.x does typically take an awful long time to launch even on a PIII 450 w/192M of RAM. It reminds me in a way of M$ Works in that it's not just a suite of separate apps, but a gigantic app w/numerous "parts". Despite its admitted annoyances (like "bloat"), I'd have to say I rather like SO 5.x, though I enjoy using the beta of Applixware 5.0 also. I guess I should try WordPerfect 2000 Suite when it's fully released ;o) Mike "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." --Winston Churchill Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. Oops! I hope nobody was annoyed at my comment. If you're on a limited budget, Star Office does just fine. For that matter, abisuite (which comes with the Mandrake 7 distrib) seems to be pretty decent, and if you want to pop over to www.linuxberg.com, you can find all the apps you can think of - organized into neat sections. There have been several instances where I've spent a lot of money on something and then gone and downloaded some free or shareware product that does the same thing, often better than the product I paid for. However, there are also times when the old saying holds true; "you get what you pay for" If you need to share files with other people, or even just email an attachment written with your word processor that others will be reading, saving to some foreign file format or even 'rich text format' will render your hard worked on document either incorrectly formatted when it's opened, or completely unreadable. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
