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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (606)	11/20/1998 10:36:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (3) of 2615

Some of the points made are quibbles and others are worrying. As far as importation goes I have Word 6.0 and there is patch for not being able to import word 7.0 documents there either. Word invented the incompatibility with .rtf files so there is no reason this format should work here either. .rtf may be a Microsoft problem. I would not expect Applix to be feature rich and smooth operating and crash free for the simple reason it is written for the X environment. A lot of locks and freezes may be due to unavoidable X problems/complexity. I think it is time again for a reader's poll. Who believes in a better commercial GUI for Linux? Who believes it can be done? as I pointed out it WAS done by another Unix but it was PS based and that is probably why they didn't go with it. Now it could be written in Java and run on several platoforms..DOS/Windows? mailto:echarter@vianet.on.ca

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