On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> StarOffice is nice but not free, as in GPL. So if I am going to switch to
> Linux, I will also switch to a free Word Processor.
WordPerfect for Linux does a nice job on Word documents. I prefer it
to StarOffice. Applix also works for this as well. The problem I have
with StarOffice is it's basically designed for MS Windows and has none
of the flexibility I have come to expect from X Windows applications.
> Moreover, the ability to open Word documents is a major part of the M$
> lock-in. The Open Source community needs a utility to break this lock-in.
Try mswordview:
ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/pub/mswordview
ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/sites/ftp.falsehope.com/mswordview
ftp://ftp.freshmeat.net/pub/rpms/mswordview
Dwight
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