The motherload, indeed!  Quicken on WINE.  Jeez.  I opened a Word 2000 doc
in Abiword a couple days ago.  Nautilus actually had a file association,
so it just required a double-click.  Came right up.  Time for the world
to mail a billion cd's back to Redmond.
Know what would be good?  Is there a really good way to export
Abiword/HTML/Gnumeric docs to PDF?  It occurs to me that if the world used
Acrobat to send pictures of docs instead of sending the binaries around,
we could **READ** them on any OS we wanted.  When you think about it,
sending the editable copy of a company doc around to people who have to
use the editor to read it is just silly.

-- 
-j
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 13:18:22 -0500
> From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: BRLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [brluglist] WINE
>
> I thought I'd share a good experience. I use Quicken to keep track of my
> finances and usually run it under VMWare. Unfortunately, this is a bit
> tedious since I have to boot Windows under Linux, and to be honest, in
> general it's just a pain. So this weekend I downloaded WINE, installed
> Quicken 2001 on my Windows drive, booted into Linux, and ran:
>
> $ wine qw.exe
>
> And guess what? It worked. Even the sound worked! I have found that the
> network functionality doesn't work for Quicken 2001 (which is a pain if
> you track your portfolio with Quicken), but hell, it works good enough
> for me.
>
> Regards, Dustin
>
>
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