On Tue, 9 May 2000 22:18:33 -0300 (ADT)  "Jared D. McNeill" wrote:

> Isn't StarOffice supposed to be MS Word compatible? It's in pkgsrc,
> 'misc/staroffice'.

I've tried StarOffice under Linux*; when saving a file in MS Word format
it loses comments, even comments that were in the file in the first
place that it read in just fine!  "Oops".

I'll be interested to see how StarOffice improves, but for now I
regard it as read-only.

Regards,

Giles

* Of course if it had worked well I'd have updated my NetBSD machines
  and installed it there too!