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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.deltanet.com!user From: bwilson@deltanet.com (Brad Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 23:57:31 -0700 Organization: none to speak of Lines: 19 Message-ID: <ADA7136B96681614C4@rvr0148.deltanet.com> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <4l1d4i$12qu@news.missouri.edu> <NELSON.96Apr17100753@ns.crynwr.com> <4l6pbd$pgc@sidhe.memra.com> <4lg8na$isk@news.missouri.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rvr0148.deltanet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22307 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:839 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3514 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3362 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18124 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47070 In article <4lg8na$isk@news.missouri.edu>, rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu (Justin "Rhys Thuryn" McNutt) wrote: >So what are the odds that a) System 7 support can be made string enough >that I can run MS Word 6.0 and Excel 5.0 for the Macintosh on my Linux >box and b) that this powerful Executor can be packaged free with Linux >distributions? > Good grief, Word 6 doesn't even like to run on my mac, seriously buggy extensions lead to frequent crashes. Although, of course, there are other word processors avalable for the mac. Speaking of which, Word Perfect 3.5 for the mac includes a Word 6 translator, couldn't that be taken apart and re-engineered for Linux? brad