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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:8137 comp.os.linux.misc:11639 comp.os.386bsd.apps:1089 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!epiwrl.entropic.com!usenet From: kenh@wrl.epi.com (Ken Hornstein) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Wine status March 11, 1994 Date: 26 Mar 1994 15:10:39 -0500 Organization: Entropic Research Laboratory, Washington DC Lines: 17 Message-ID: <2n24rv$sea@sparc10.entropic.com> References: <2mfun0$j4d@universe.digex.net> <1994Mar22.164834.8123@uk.ac.swan.pyr> <newcombe.22.000D9C0F@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> <JRG.94Mar25034109@blodwen.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: kenh@wrl.epi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc10.entropic.com In article <JRG.94Mar25034109@blodwen.demon.co.uk>, james r grinter <jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In article <newcombe.22.000D9C0F@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe) writes: > WordPerfect has a version for X, I'm surprised that MicroSloth hasn't > followed suit, as it's seems like it'd be a good place to compete. Or > >There is, however, the programs from Astrix (is that right?) that look >remarkably like Word and Excel. I believe that they're only currently >available on Suns - but they do look good. Does anyone have any more >info or experience of them? We have Asterix here at work; I wouldn't say it looks "remarkably" like Word and Excel. It looks like your standard commercial word processor/spreadsheet. The one big thing I don't like about Asterix is that it has a truely bizarre macro language. If it used Tcl for a macro language, it would be great :-) --Ken