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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!205.252.116.190!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet From: Charlie Brown <cr-brown@uiuc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: A suggestion to Linux/Bsd Developers Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 17:36:45 -0600 Organization: Division of Quantitative Psychology - UIUC Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32FD0E0D.8D7@uiuc.edu> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5dh0o6$ji9$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <32FCE83E.3CB5A317@getthe.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: eehpxop1.ews.uiuc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.10 9000/715) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157077 comp.os.linux.networking:67753 comp.os.linux.setup:96206 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5951 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2403 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52274 comp.os.os2.advocacy:266573 Schick wrote: > > V.S. Senthilkumar wrote: > > > > From the previous thread in this newsgroup it is getting clear that, > > unix is lacking a "cheap real word processor". (like MS Word) > > MS Word is not cheap. $60 at Circuit City for the upgrade, student pricing even lower for a large university, and the full version is about $200. Compare that to WordPerfect for Linux. -- charlie brown, "Witty Quote Here"