In message <20011031193014.A8137@unixbrewers.org>, Scott Barron writes:
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>Sorry, I lost the original poster's message.  I haven't tried it but what
>about the staroffice package?  That seemed to handle the MS Office files
>OK when I used it on a Linux box over the summer.  Also, has anyone managed
>to get any of the OpenOffice stuff to ever compile?  Just a thought.
>

After my first day's serious work using StarOffice, I must say that 
it's really like the Windows apps it emulates -- it core-dumped once, 
hung once, and froze X once, though I was able to recover by logging in 
from another machine....  (For what it's worth, this was on 1.5Y with
X 4.1.0.)

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