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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Various X-apps for *BSD? Message-ID: <hastyCDA7L1.ACu@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <26mevq$914@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 07:31:48 GMT Lines: 37 In article <26mevq$914@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> johnj@lobster.sid.mcet.edu (John Jackson) writes: >Hi: > >Let's say I got the crazy idea that I wanted to change over all my DOS users >who have 486 machines with plenty of RAM and disk and S3 display cards to >*BSD and X (from DOS stuff). What, if anything, (free) is out there for X word >processors, spreadsheets, drawing/layout, database management? word processors: interviews idoc drawing tools: interviews idraw xfig gopath's godraw (structured graphics and the functionality to generate output files which can be used for graphical presentations ---kind of like a gui builder) database management: ingres89 Using gopath or tk it should not be too hard to create a spread sheet program, if memory does not fail me there is already a tk spread sheet. tcl/tk is a scripting language with X extensions for all sorts of use People in the net just love to add extensions like database extensions, snmp extensions, graph extensions, etc. Hope this helps, Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming