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Re: Star Office



On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 05:42:18PM -0700,  Shane   wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Is there a Debian package of the Star Office?

No.  

The default installer works pretty well though.  StarOffice is scheduled
for release under GPL/LGPL October 13, 2000.  I would expect that a
Debian package might be available shortly thereafter.

> I need to read a MS Word document.  Are there
> any other software in Debian for viewing a
> MS Word doc?.  I have a Debian 2.2 system.
> Thanks

    $ strings foo.doc | less

...works.

mswordview, abiword, and Corel WordPerfect, may work with varying
degrees of success for various documents.


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