[ale] reading MS Word files

[critter at wizvax.net (Glenn C. Lasher Jr.)]

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Wandered Inn wrote:

> "Glenn C. Lasher Jr." wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Philip Rodgers wrote:
> > 
> > > staroffice can read msword files
> > 
> > ...so can Word Perfect.... and Word Perfect is much less of a resource
> > hog.
> 
> As well as Applixware, but I don't know about resource issues.  I've
> never had any problems with it.
> 

Well, my system is a little old (K5 at 133MHz, 32MB RAM) and I found that
StarOffice ran ungodly slow on it.  Inexcusably slow, even.  The real MS
product running under NT on the same machine was about four times as fast.

...but then again, I rarely ever boot into NT for other reasons.

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