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Some Thoughts on the Current State of 64-bit Computing
Some Thoughts on the Current State of 64-bit Computing
Posted Feb 17, 2005 21:57 UTC (Thu) by dan_b (guest, #22105)Parent article: Some Thoughts on the Current State of 64-bit Computing
With its superior document conversion filters to and from MS Office, OpenOffice.org is an essential application on any workstation
Speak for yourself. My workstation seems to be working quite nicely without this apparently essential component.
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Some Thoughts on the Current State of 64-bit Computing
Posted Feb 19, 2005 3:57 UTC (Sat) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
If it doesn't open in Emacs, it's not worth reading!
(Besides, if you do have to open a word file for some reason, you can use the very good wvWare tools from wvware.sourceforge.net. Command-line tools that convert MSWord files into lots of nifty things!)
Some Thoughts on the Current State of 64-bit Computing
Posted Feb 20, 2005 19:16 UTC (Sun) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link]
IIRC, Abiword uses wv/wvware internally for it's Word/RTF filters.