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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (606)	11/20/1998 6:55:00 PM
From: Judd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2615

Well, I have had applixware 4.4.1 for over a month now. I think I said on this thread, or maybe the Applix thread that I would give my review of it. Well, I really don't do a whole lot of "Office" stuff, so I've been waiting. However I have imported/exported some word docs, and it does pretty good. It miss places the graphics a little bit. However, the things that it messed up, I looked in the book and these are known bugs that they admit to. I about fell off of my chair. I am so used to other companies (ok one other company) that won't admit to any bugs in their software. Bugs happen, just tell me about them and I'll deal with it instead of spending countless hours messing with something that they know doesn't work but won't tell you!!! I was a little disappointed that they say it exports Word 97, and 7.0, but then it does it "via RTF". Lame. It doesn't export them. This was a lie. It also doesn't import "fast saved" word documents right, but they admit this, so that's ok for now. I imported some excell stuff fine, and played around with graphics and HTML builder. The spreadsheet is ok, as far as I can tell. Graphics and HTML builder need work. You are way better off using GIMP, etc. and Netscape HTML page editor. The mail looked ok, but I like pine better. I thought it came with a personal database, but its just an ODBC front end interface. I'll have to re-read their web page and box to see if this is misleading, or maybe it was just me being dumb. Install couldn't be easier, plus you can run it off of the CDROM without installing it. I tried to crash it and could not. Its all statically linked, so I don't know what their problem was. Overall it allowed me to go 100% Office free, so I'm happy. All, I mainly wanted was the word processor that could import/export word. Its probably not worth $99.00 though. I wanted to do a comparison test with StarOffice, but StarOffice 5.0 won't run at all on my machine. I used WordPerfect's 30day trial before they started giving it away and could not get it to print in 30 days, so that was that. Overall, I'm fairly happy with Applixware and will continue to buy anything that I need that is written for Linux. It supports a good cause, right? My dream is to have a good percentage of people running Linux, so that I can walk into a store and buy a Linux game, scanner with drivers, etc. This is how I can help get there. Judd

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

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (606)	11/21/1998 1:00:00 AM
From: g_m10	Respond to of 2615

Well g. I quickly read the article. Some of the points made are correct. But It seems that the folks at linux world have it in for applixware. ...applixware will do 100 % of what 80 to 90% of MS office user do Thomas, Basically, your post and the following post by Judd, and many others in newsgroups, confirmed that applixware has more than enough features for a user like me. I think that there are always be features that can't be easily imported, Microsoft will take care of that anyway. The question is how many people use those special features. If it's 1-5% as I think, than it should not be of any concern.