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Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel



On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:27:43PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> "Steve R. Hastings" <steve@hastings.org> writes:
> 
> > Corel is selling the whole WordPerfect Office suite, which includes
> > WordPerfect and Quattro Pro.
> 
> Note that last I checked, there's no commitment to ongoing support of
> this product, there was almost no support of WP8, and getting fixes
[blah blah blah]
> 
> In other words, if you want WPO2k/Linux, you'll be on your own.

In addition, the WPO2k for linux is, in my experience, not very good.
It's essentially the windows version and a WINE environment, and
crashed so frequently that I could hardly use it.

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Rob

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