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#! rnews 2330 bsd 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 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.idt.net!news.stealth.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!uucp4.uu.net!xyzzy!bcstec!ajs6143 From: ajs6143@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Andy Stefancik) Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Message-ID: <E58MLp.A2D@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> Organization: The Boeing Company References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <x7n2ti4s7i.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <5dc7qq$hed@phoenix.sysbe.sysgo.de> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 14:51:24 GMT Lines: 31 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157773 comp.os.linux.networking:68118 comp.os.linux.setup:96774 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5973 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2459 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52588 comp.os.os2.advocacy:267175 In article <5dc7qq$hed@phoenix.sysbe.sysgo.de>, Robert Kaiser <rob@charlie.sysbe.sysgo.de> wrote: >In article <x7n2ti4s7i.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com>, > Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> writes: >>vss@shell2.ba.best.com (V.S. Senthilkumar) writes: >> >>> Tell me a cheap and good word processing application for unix? >> >>1) emacs + groff (preview with the -X option if using X). >>2) emacs + [La]TeX >> >Oh, come on! This just doesn't compare to WinWord. I was about to mention >Lyx which looks like a good start, but even that one doesn't compare. >There is also StarOffice which is said to be a good and complete office >suite. It's commercial on other OSes but free for Linux. The drawback >(and also the reason why I have not tried it) is that it requires >Motif 2.0, which is available for Linux, but not for free. > >It's really a pity that there is in fact no good word processor under GPL. >If there had been one by the time Winword came out, maybe Micro$oft >would not be dominating the market the way they do these days. I am using wordperfect5.2 for SCO under bsdi SCO emulation. It wa pricy though, around $375. The Coral version 7 of wordperfect and it's associated office suite is only avaiable on the microsoft stuff I think. Andy S.