[1454] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: bringing Applixware to MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Debajit Ghosh)
Wed Oct 2 10:58:58 1996
To: Eric Ding <ericding@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, sanjay@applix.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Oct 1996 09:59:12 EDT."
<199610021359.JAA02686@kabuf.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 10:58:03 EDT
From: Debajit Ghosh <djib@hematite.mit.edu>
>>>>> On Wed, 02 Oct 1996 09:59:12 EDT, Eric Ding <ericding@MIT.EDU> said:
Eric> So here comes the shameless plug part (You can tell I'm R&D,
Eric> not marketing =b). Applix would like to find out if the MIT
Eric> community would be interested in evaluating and using
Eric> Applixware; first for the growing Linux community, and then,
Eric> given our multi-platform strength, even campus-wide.
Eric> Especially given the lack of a commercial-quality WYSIWYG
Eric> word processor application (although Applixware also
Eric> contains quality spreadsheet, database client, graphics,
Eric> presentation, and e-mail tools) for the Linux community at
Eric> MIT, it seems like this would be a cool idea. :)
I've been looking into this but see one major problem with ApplixWare on
Athena -- it doesn't seem to like AFS. For some reason, I cannot write to
anywhere in AFS from Applix -- it complains that the filename is "illegal."
I've asked Red Hat about this to see if this was a Linux-ism, but I have
yet to hear back from them :-(.. anyway, it would be hard to use if we cannot
write into AFS ;-) (Do you know anything about this...?) But a few of us in
SIPB are fairly interested in seeing where we could go with Applix...
-Jit
djib@mit.edu
