Re: Pathetic Writer (or siagoffice)
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 06:20, kmark+debian@pipeline.com wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Ken Caldwell wrote:
>
> > <quote who="Wilko Fokken">
> >
> > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:40:29PM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I was looking for a small word processor and spreadsheet to be used on
> > > > some old computers (Pentium 75 with 32MB RAM and 520MB HDD) and tried to
> > > > use Pathetic Writer which is part of siagoffice but it seems to crash.
> > > >
> > > > Ken
> > > >
> > > Do you really need wordprocessing combined with a spreadsheet within one
> > > single program?
> > >
> > > If not, you may try 'slsc' as a not so bad spreadsheet in text mode;
> > > this may lead you to a better wordprocessor not overeating your system
> > > ressources - if not even to working with 'latex'.
Hey, slsc is pretty spiffy! Reminds me of Lotus 1-2-3.
And really light-weight. slsc + nano would be very useful for
lightweight systems: fvwm2 & and bunch of rxvt windows with nano,
slsc, mutt & links.
What else could you possibly need?
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