Re: Linux in Wired (fwd)
On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 1997 at 06:52:20AM -0600, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
> > Installed Applix the other night. I like it just as much as Office95/97
> > little slow on my system ... but I will be upgrading it in a couple of
> > months.
> >
> > As for file importing and exporting ... Applix Words can bring in almost
> > everything that word and wordperfect can open/import. It does not like
> > nor will it open fast save documents though .. comes up with an
> > incompatable format error.
>
> That is unfortunate, because for the Word user, there's rarely
> any need to turn it off, which means the Applix user needs to keep
> Word around just to convert it.
Fast save is not a good way to save anyway ... it just appends data to the
file. The file inturn is bigger than it needs to be and is fragmented ..
I always do a save as once and a while to clean up the files. Matter of
preference on saving I guess.
> How does it handle equations written in MS Equation Editor?
> Can it export equations back to equation editor too? That would
> be a great feature, but a big ask perhaps; right now I use
> Lotus WordPro 97 on WinNT and even it can't export its
> equations to Word/Equation Editor, it just exports them as pictures
> (which is no good for editing).
Havn't tried that yet ... don't have any here actually. Send me a file
with some and I'll give it a try and see what blows up here ;)
Chad
>
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Southwest Technology Development Institute
New Mexico State University
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