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From: calvin@malchick.com (Jimmie Farmer)
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
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In article <5dcpv2$r8a@halon.vggas.com>,
James Youngman <JYoungman@vggas.com> wrote:
>In article <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com>, vss@shell2.ba.best.com says...
>
>>Tell me a cheap and good word processing application for unix?
>
>Applixware is cheaper than Office.  I'm told it's good.

	I use The "ez" Andrew word processer under Linux, and it 
works quite nicely.  Andrew is free.

	We use Island Write under SunOS at work, and it is quite
nice as well.  I do not know how much it is, though.

	Sincerely,
	Jimmie Farmer

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