[6746] in RedHat Linux List
Re: WABI on Redhat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Fri Nov 29 23:26:07 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 23:23:28 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keven R. Pittsinger" <jamstar@multiverse.com>
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On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Thomas Molina wrote:
> > I know I will be seriously scorched by flames for wanting
> > to run Windows in Linux. I need this for communicating with
> > my co-workers who use M$ Word, if this is a sufficient excuse.
>
> The solution I've adopted for this is Applixware. I bought their student
> version of the 4.2 suite and it works nice. Out of the box it only exports
> in RTF format, but Word can read that. In additon, they sell filter packs
> which work both with the 6.X versions of Word, as well as the Office 95 suite.
But will these filters work with the 'Stone Age' version of Word 2.0 for
Windows? *SOME* of us never bothered upgrading some of our tools, since
they worked perfectly well under 16 bit Windoze. I've got a LOT of stuff
in WinWord 2.0 format that I *KNOW* Word Pervert for Linux/X will
handle...
Keven
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