[98555] in RedHat Linux List
Re: S0 5--bigger, or better
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Lewis)
Mon Nov 9 17:52:37 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 21:13:40 +0000
From: John Lewis <jayell@mcmail.com>
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Greg Fall said in reply
> On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Jeff wrote:
>
> > For all of you that have successfully downloaded (how?) SO 5.0, and
>
> It is a monster. I reckon it would take around 128 MB and a P233 or so
> for me to let it regularly share the desktop with the other stuff I've
> usually got going.
Oh Woe! I only have a P133 and 64 Mb but am prepared to run SO on its own (on
AfterStep)
> Windows-type interface makes me pretty skittish, and I don't understand
> why Star Division doesn't have the guts to make their own (there are
> apparently some competent developers there).
I just read on the Star Division page that they have released an interim version
for WIN/NT so guess they want to compete head-on with M$. I wonder how M$ will
react to that action. Are SO able to withstand the sort of tactics M$ have
adopted in the past with competitors?
> Final verdict: Star Office, while
> not terribly big on innovation (M$ buzzword!!!), has so far worked
> perfectly, and in my one example was able to pretty much out-Word Word
> itself.
My main reason for responding is to find out what text filters are in 5.0. I
need to import docs originally prepared with Ami-Pro 3.0 for OS/2. At the moment
I have to load them, via floppy, on my wife's Win3.11 box, use her copy of
Ami-Pro for Win to convert to Word6 format before I can get SO 4.0 to recognise
the files.
Have you tried using 5.0 for web access. I tried with 4.0 but it was too
unreliable so went back to using Netscape? If I could avoid using NS this would
reduce the overhead on running StarOffice - re system details above :-(
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