john beamon wrote: <em>> The motherload, indeed! Quicken on WINE. Jeez. I opened a Word 2000 doc <em>> in Abiword a couple days ago. Nautilus actually had a file association, <em>> so it just required a double-click. Came right up. Time for the world <em>> to mail a billion cd's back to Redmond. <p>Well, I still use the Windows 98 install for the .dll's needed by wine, but I'm happy it even works. <p><em>> we could **READ** them on any OS we wanted. When you think about it, <em>> sending the editable copy of a company doc around to people who have to <em>> use the editor to read it is just silly. <p>Actually, you don't need the full Office suite to read those. Windows comes with a quick reader for most Word and possibly Excel document. I think they are called "Quick View" readers. Regards, Dustin
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