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by **Andrew Sarang** » Tue, 23 Apr 1996 04:00:00

I am running Linux now, but I do have the frequent need to use MS-Word/Powerpnt
and Corel Draw. I have tried running these from wine, but the speed seems
excruciatingly slow. So I end up rebooting to DOS. What I would like is
to know is if there are similar programs like those for XF86 ? They don't
have to be as fancy as the Word or Powerpoint, but atleast should have a
similar basic function.

Can anyone recommend ?
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Andrew Sarangan

by **Uwe Bonn** » Tue, 23 Apr 1996 04:00:00

:
:
: I am running Linux now, but I do have the frequent need to use MS-Word/
: Powerpnt
: and Corel Draw. I have tried running these from wine, but the speed seems
: excruciatingly slow. So I end up rebooting to DOS. What I would like is
: to know is if there are similar programs like those for XF86 ? They don't
: have to be as fancy as the Word or Powerpoint, but atleast should have a
: similar basic function.
:
: Can anyone recommend ?
This is not wine-related, but Star Division promised to release a version of
ther Star Office package in this second quarter of 1996 with a "special"
copyright required for Linux _free_.
See http://www.stardiv.de
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by **Evan Leibovit** » Tue, 23 Apr 1996 04:00:00

Quote:>I am running Linux now, but I do have the frequent need to use MS-Word/Powerpnt
>and Corel Draw. I have tried running these from wine, but the speed seems
>excruciatingly slow. So I end up rebooting to DOS. What I would like is
>to know is if there are similar programs like those for XF86 ? They don't
>have to be as fancy as the Word or Powerpoint, but atleast should have a
>similar basic function.

CorelDraw and WordPerfect, amongst others, are doing native ports for
Linux. To reduce the headaches innate in supporting so the many possible
vaiations in Linux installations, these products will only be sold and
supported for RedHat-based Caldera.

--
Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario

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by **Tom Klu** » Tue, 23 Apr 1996 04:00:00

:
: >I am running Linux now, but I do have the frequent need to use MS-Word/Powerpnt
: >and Corel Draw. I have tried running these from wine, but the speed seems
: >excruciatingly slow. So I end up rebooting to DOS. What I would like is
: >to know is if there are similar programs like those for XF86 ? They don't
: >have to be as fancy as the Word or Powerpoint, but atleast should have a
: >similar basic function.
:
: CorelDraw and WordPerfect, amongst others, are doing native ports for
: Linux. To reduce the headaches innate in supporting so the many possible
: vaiations in Linux installations, these products will only be sold and
: supported for RedHat-based Caldera.

I am not sure whether the company is doing a port to Linux or not, but I
work at the University of Michigan, and we have just gotten a demo of an
applications suite called "Applix". It is almost a complete ripoff of
Microsoft Office professional.

Does anyone know whether this package is available for Linux? If it is, it
would certainly be worth paying a reasonable fee for.

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by **Igor Kurniko** » Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:00:00

Quote:
>I am not sure whether the company is doing a port to Linux or not, but I
>work at the University of Michigan, and we have just gotten a demo of an
>applications suite called "Applix". It is almost a complete ripoff of
>Microsoft Office professional.

>Does anyone know whether this package is available for Linux?

It seems that RedHat is porting ApplixWare to Linux.
I saw it running on a Linux box at Linux EXPO-96.

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by **George Caswel** » Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:00:00

> I am running Linux now, but I do have the frequent need to use MS-Word/Powerpnt
> and Corel Draw. I have tried running these from wine, but the speed seems
> excruciatingly slow. So I end up rebooting to DOS. What I would like is
> to know is if there are similar programs like those for XF86 ? They don't
> have to be as fancy as the Word or Powerpoint, but atleast should have a
> similar basic function.

There's wordperfect for Linux/X... And the speed problems are due to
WINE being in the Alpha stage-- I'm surprised all of the above software
-did- run. Another option, while you wait for WINE, is to try Willows
software's XWIN... it works on some software where WINE does not (and
vice versa)

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by **Mark O. Michae** » Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:00:00

>This is not wine-related, but Star Division promised to release a version of
>ther Star Office package in this second quarter of 1996 with a "special"
>copyright required for Linux _free_.
>See http://www.stardiv.de

I tried it. The English-language pages look as though they have not
been updated for a while. Sorry, my German is pitiful.

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by **Gary War** » Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:00:00

> >This is not wine-related, but Star Division promised to release a version of
> >ther Star Office package in this second quarter of 1996 with a "special"
> >copyright required for Linux _free_.
> >See http://www.stardiv.de

> I tried it. The English-language pages look as though they have not
> been updated for a while. Sorry, my German is pitiful.
> --
> thanks
> mark michael

Well, I read the German stuff too. So far, it just says "coming in the second quarter"
and nothing else, so I would guess that it is not out yet. Usually "in the second
quarter" means late June.

by **Ravi K. Swa** » Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:00:00

>:
>: >I am running Linux now, but I do have the frequent need to use MS-Word/Powerpnt
>: >and Corel Draw. I have tried running these from wine, but the speed seems
>: >excruciatingly slow. So I end up rebooting to DOS. What I would like is
>: >to know is if there are similar programs like those for XF86 ? They don't
>: >have to be as fancy as the Word or Powerpoint, but atleast should have a
>: >similar basic function.
>:
>: CorelDraw and WordPerfect, amongst others, are doing native ports for
>: Linux. To reduce the headaches innate in supporting so the many possible
>: vaiations in Linux installations, these products will only be sold and
>: supported for RedHat-based Caldera.

>I am not sure whether the company is doing a port to Linux or not, but I
>work at the University of Michigan, and we have just gotten a demo of an
>applications suite called "Applix". It is almost a complete ripoff of
>Microsoft Office professional.

>Does anyone know whether this package is available for Linux? If it is, it
>would certainly be worth paying a reasonable fee for.

I don't know. I heard some rumors about it but I searched for "linux"
on http://www.applix.com/ and came up with nothing. The weird thing
is that Red Hat just had an ad in Linux Journal with a bunch of
buzzwords on it. One of them was "Applixware" so I guess they have
something going.

Ravi
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by **Richard B. Kreck** » Thu, 25 Apr 1996 04:00:00

: CorelDraw and WordPerfect, amongst others, are doing native ports for
: Linux. To reduce the headaches innate in supporting so the many possible
: vaiations in Linux installations, these products will only be sold and
: supported for RedHat-based Caldera.

Native Linux-Ports of these two Products would certainly be good for
the Linux-effort. I am, however, still waiting for the
WordPerfect-port, which was announced for the end of last year. And I
have never heard of CorelDraw being ported. Can somebody please point
to more information about Corel for Linux?

TIA!
rbk
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by **Michael K. Johns** » Thu, 25 Apr 1996 04:00:00

Quote:>I am not sure whether the company is doing a port to Linux or not, but I
>work at the University of Michigan, and we have just gotten a demo of an
>applications suite called "Applix". It is almost a complete ripoff of
>Microsoft Office professional.

>Does anyone know whether this package is available for Linux? If it is, it
>would certainly be worth paying a reasonable fee for.

I don't know if it has been officially announced in any way
yet, but at Linux Expo '96, Red Hat was demoing a beta of
Applix running native on Linux. I don't think that they
have set a release date yet, since Red Hat has a policy
of not pre-announcing things (a refreshing change...)

michaelkjohnson

by **Graham Tod** » Thu, 25 Apr 1996 04:00:00

What about the "Andrew" integrated multimedia environment? I ran a demo of
it from my Yygdrasil PnP CD and it seemed pretty neat. I haven't
compiled/installed 'cause I don't have sound or lots of memory or video
RAM so I don't really know whether there's good print support or
whatever. But *nix devotees I know used to rave about it.

Anyway I think with scripts drawing programmes etc it would be
possible to do a Powerpoint type slide show (I'll leave it up to you to
figure out how to get it out on to an external monitor).
As for work arounds for other elements of MS Office:

Mail - well built in TCP-IP along with biff, xmh, PINE, ELM etc etc pretty
much take care of that. As well, with Andrew you can supposedly embed
multimedia in email fairly easily (but it's got some kind of 'unique' file
format so you can't read it on other MUAs)
Excel - Oleo??
Word - There's a native Linux port of WordPerfect coming soon! (supposedly
for 1.2.13 with Caldera style directory names). This is one Linux app I
would actually BUY! Probably mini-spread sheet like tables will be possible.

If you try Andrew and you like it let me know - maybe I'll buy some RAM
and a bigger HD and install it!

I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate the WINE team! I still
find the fact that we can run anything to be completely amazing (and this
amazement is not due to my own limited progamming skills!) Ironically, the
successful implementation of the Win 3.1 16bit stuff may help clear the
shelves of all those 'old' (and cheap) versions of Word/Excel etc. With
enough WINE even Windows programmes may end up looking OK!

Graham Todd

> I am running Linux now, but I do have the frequent need to use MS-Word/Powerpnt
> and Corel Draw. I have tried running these from wine, but the speed seems
> excruciatingly slow. So I end up rebooting to DOS. What I would like is
> to know is if there are similar programs like those for XF86 ? They don't
> have to be as fancy as the Word or Powerpoint, but atleast should have a
> similar basic function.
> Can anyone recommend ?
> Andrew Sarangan

by **Otto Joh Hammersmi** » Thu, 25 Apr 1996 04:00:00

>: CorelDraw and WordPerfect, amongst others, are doing native ports for
>: Linux. To reduce the headaches innate in supporting so the many possible
>: vaiations in Linux installations, these products will only be sold and
>: supported for RedHat-based Caldera.

>Native Linux-Ports of these two Products would certainly be good for
>the Linux-effort. I am, however, still waiting for the
>WordPerfect-port, which was announced for the end of last year. And I
>have never heard of CorelDraw being ported. Can somebody please point
>to more information about Corel for Linux?

Why are you still waiting for the Wordperfect port? You can get it
now for $125 (till may 15, I think)... or the bundle it's in for $250.
Check out Caldera's web site under "new stuff".
--
-Otto.

by **Otto Joh Hammersmi** » Thu, 25 Apr 1996 04:00:00

Quote:>Excel - Oleo??

To be honest, Oleo isn't really that usable right now. (at least, in
my opinion). Of course there's sc and a slew of others based on it.
None of which I've found very useful.

Then there are the commercial versions. NeXS is the cheapest ($99
right now), but the demo crashes at the drop of hat... I don't doubt
that it may be my version Motif it confilicts with, but I don't want
to pay $99 for the hassle. Xess is just like NeXS (I think the later
is intended as a clone) but is a -lot- more expensive.

Lesse... then there's Angoss Smartware. It's more like an old DOS
version of Lotus or somesuch. It comes with a word processor and a
database, too. Might be useful for some people.

Star Division is promising, but will be several months before we see
an english version.

IMHO, there are no -decent- spreadsheets for Linux. I have a feeling
that's because most of the programmers who could write one do what I
do... resort to small perl scripts hacked together to just get the job
done.
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-Otto.

by **Ravi K. Swa** » Thu, 25 Apr 1996 04:00:00

>>Excel - Oleo??

>To be honest, Oleo isn't really that usable right now. (at least, in
>my opinion). Of course there's sc and a slew of others based on it.
>None of which I've found very useful.

>Then there are the commercial versions. NeXS is the cheapest ($99
>right now), but the demo crashes at the drop of hat... I don't doubt
>that it may be my version Motif it confilicts with, but I don't want
>to pay $99 for the hassle. Xess is just like NeXS (I think the later
>is intended as a clone) but is a -lot- more expensive.

Are you trying to run a dynamically linked version? I have the
statically linked Motif version of Xess and it runs just fine.

Quote:>Lesse... then there's Angoss Smartware. It's more like an old DOS
>version of Lotus or somesuch. It comes with a word processor and a
>database, too. Might be useful for some people.

>Star Division is promising, but will be several months before we see
>an english version.

>IMHO, there are no -decent- spreadsheets for Linux. I have a feeling
>that's because most of the programmers who could write one do what I
>do... resort to small perl scripts hacked together to just get the job
>done.

Have you tried Wingz? It's shareware and $49 from http://www.wingz.com/
There is also Xquad at ftp.x.org /contrib/office/X4u along with
their DTP program Xclamation. Personally I've got jack squat
use for a spreadsheet but all three of these have worked rather
well for me.

Ravi
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