Re: TextMaker

2003-11-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 15 November 2003 12:16 am, Kurt Wall wrote: Has anyone received their TextMaker $11.11 download instructions yet? I've not seen mine... Kurt I received mine about 44 hours after I received the Thank You email. The website said it usually takes a day; but at $11.11, I'm sure

Re: TextMaker

2003-11-15 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 01:16:23 -0500 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone received their TextMaker $11.11 download instructions yet? I've not seen mine... If you're keen to get started, download the 30 day trial- I think you can then unlock it when you get the instructions. If not save

Re: TextMaker

2003-11-15 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 0.3K bytes, Kurt Wall blathered: Has anyone received their TextMaker $11.11 download instructions yet? I've not seen mine... Works everytime - I send this message, and the license informaiton arrives. Kurt -- Hacker's Law: The belief that enhanced understanding

Re: TextMaker

2003-11-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 05:08:09 -0500 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consuming 0.3K bytes, Kurt Wall blathered: Has anyone received their TextMaker $11.11 download instructions yet? I've not seen mine... Works everytime - I send this message, and the license informaiton arrives. Hey

TextMaker

2003-11-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Has anyone received their TextMaker $11.11 download instructions yet? I've not seen mine... Kurt -- It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http

Re: Textmaker open for business

2003-11-11 Thread Michael Hipp
Alan Jackson wrote: If you want to buy textmaker for $11, the site is now open for business... I ordered a couple of copies last night for $22. The download instructions and serial numbers were in my mailbox this morning. Nice. Michael ___ Linux

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth M.W. Chang: better than open office? Yup, in the same way that single malt scotch is better than Listerine. Kurt -- Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. -- D. J. Hicks

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth dep: i use textmaker -- couldn't live without it -- and it is very, very good. i got this note from 'em tonight and thought i'd pass it along in case anyone had been interested but didn't want to pay $50 for the product (though if it were $200 it would be worth it, imho). Just

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-11 Thread Collins Richey
commented that they had pretty good success with OO and textmaker re: Word format docs. Just for grins, I loaded up OO and opened up a Word doc that someone just sent me. Looked pretty wierd in OO but looked perfect with textmaker. I've gone both ways OO-Doc and vice versa. The key to getting

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-11 Thread dep
quoth Leon A. Goldstein: | I ordered a copy this morning. I will only use Textmaker | occasionally to format HTML documents. After playing a bit with the | trial download, I do find Textmaker a lot simpler for the non-expert | to format a HTML document than OO or Staroffice. that's the one

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-11 Thread Myles Green
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:23:43PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth M.W. Chang: better than open office? Yup, in the same way that single malt scotch is better than Listerine. Kurt Mm... single malt scotch, something I haven't had for *years*. Ah well, back to my Sprite. -- Myles

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-11 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Dep wrote: quoth Leon A. Goldstein: | I ordered a copy this morning. I will only use Textmaker | occasionally to format HTML documents. After playing a bit with the | trial download, I do find Textmaker a lot simpler for the non-expert | to format a HTML document than OO or Staroffice. that's

Textmaker open for business

2003-11-10 Thread Alan Jackson
If you want to buy textmaker for $11, the site is now open for business... -- --- | Alan K. Jackson| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread M.W. Chang
what does textmaker do? dep wrote: i use textmaker -- couldn't live without it -- and it is very, very good. i got this note from 'em tonight and thought i'd pass it along in case anyone had been interested but didn't want to pay $50 for the product (though if it were $200 it would

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread dep
quoth M.W. Chang: | what does textmaker do? it is an *excellent* word processor. reads and writes msft word files of many flavors -- best filters i've ever seen. and is both very powerful and very fast. i've so far used it for three book proposals (complicated documents of about 25,000 words

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:37:01 +0800 M.W. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what does textmaker do? dep wrote: i use textmaker -- couldn't live without it -- and it is very, very good. i got this note from 'em tonight and thought i'd pass it along in case anyone had been interested

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Sunday 09 November 2003 05:10 am, Rick Sivernell wrote: On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:37:01 +0800 M.W. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what does textmaker do? It's a floor wax . . . No, it's a dessert topping . . . .No, floor wax, . . . . No, dessert topping. Stop, you're both right

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Sunday 09 November 2003 04:49 am, dep wrote: quoth M.W. Chang: | what does textmaker do? it is an *excellent* word processor. reads and writes msft word files of many flavors -- best filters i've ever seen. and is both very powerful and very fast. i've so far used it for three book

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread M.W. Chang
better than open office? Tony Alfrey wrote: Seriously, however, it's a Word replacement that works well, reads and writes Word format. -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux 2.4.22-xfs ^ ^1:28am up 1 day, 9:34, 0 users,

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Leon Goldstein
M. W. Chang wrote: better than open office? Tony Alfrey wrote: Seriously, however, it's a Word replacement that works well, reads and writes Word format. I dloaded the trial version after reading the original post. Abiword still gets my nod. The latest release that came with Libranet

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread dep
quoth M.W. Chang: | better than open office? far different (though in my estimation oodles better, also). textmaker is a word processor/desktop publisher, period. it is much, much smaller and much, much faster than openoffice. on a machine here where openoffice takes more than a minute to open

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:29 am, M.W. Chang wrote: better than open office? Tony Alfrey wrote: Seriously, however, it's a Word replacement that works well, reads and writes Word format. Don't know; haven't used OO. Sorry. I think they still have a trial version; load it up and give it

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Sunday 09 November 2003 07:05 am, Collins Richey wrote: snip I'm used to waiting for reponse from user groups re open source products, but IMHO a commerical provider needs to have a little better response than this. Perhaps I'll try again or try to buy it during the Karnival madness. Try

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
OpenOffice is more akin to the full MS Office suite - it has Word, Excel, and Powerpoint equivalents and I've found it works well. Tony Alfrey wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 09:29 am, M.W. Chang wrote: better than open office? Tony Alfrey wrote: Seriously, however, it's a Word

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Collins
again or try to buy it during the Karnival madness. Try it; you'll like it. I got a prompt response from textmaker tech support this time. Per their story, an ex-employee sat on a lot of emails, including mine, so I will try the lottery on Tuesday. -- Collins Fedora core 1 system

textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-08 Thread dep
i use textmaker -- couldn't live without it -- and it is very, very good. i got this note from 'em tonight and thought i'd pass it along in case anyone had been interested but didn't want to pay $50 for the product (though if it were $200 it would be worth it, imho). -- Forwarded

Re: OT Textmaker for Linux from Softmaker software

2003-06-18 Thread Harry Giles
On Tue June 17 2003 06:49 pm, dep wrote: begin Harry Giles's quote: | Has anyone had any experience with these folks? How do you get | them to respond? tony's response is accurate. are you sure the linux version isn't on the cd also? (i have the download version and keep *numerous*

OT Textmaker for Linux from Softmaker software

2003-06-17 Thread Harry Giles
Has anyone had any experience with these folks? How do you get them to respond? I purchased the Linux CD version, they send me registration info for Textmaker fro Windows and Pocket PC's. I email them 6 times in 2 weeks, no response. Today I get the CD for Textmaker for Windows and Pocket

Re: OT Textmaker for Linux from Softmaker software

2003-06-17 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 02:20 pm, Harry Giles wrote: Has anyone had any experience with these folks? How do you get them to respond? I purchased the Linux CD version, they send me registration info for Textmaker fro Windows and Pocket PC's. I email them 6 times in 2 weeks, no response

Re: OT Textmaker for Linux from Softmaker software

2003-06-17 Thread dep
begin Harry Giles's quote: | Has anyone had any experience with these folks? How do you get | them to respond? tony's response is accurate. are you sure the linux version isn't on the cd also? (i have the download version and keep *numerous* backups, because after using it for six weeks or

Re: OT Textmaker for Linux from Softmaker software

2003-06-17 Thread Harry Giles
On Tue June 17 2003 06:49 pm, dep wrote: begin Harry Giles's quote: | Has anyone had any experience with these folks? How do you get | them to respond? tony's response is accurate. are you sure the linux version isn't on the cd also? snip I just checked, just a pdf file, and 2 .exe