Druppy wrote:
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You might want to put that spell checker to work.
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> If a train station is where the train stops, what is a work station?
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> jshriv> As to word processors, I personally don't use the god awful things (I use
> jshriv> emacs and LaTeX). But, if you insist on a wordprocessor Star Office is
> jshriv> suppose to be a pretty close rip off of Microsoft office, see earlier
> jshriv> posting about Star Office. As to the CAD argument, I am not sure what
> jshriv> part of the CAD world you are in but AutoCAD if far from the "ONLY"
> jshriv> acceptable CAD package. Many of the high end CAD packages are available
> jshriv> only on Unix, which is part of the reason AutoCAD is not fighting for that
> jshriv> niche. Algor, Ansys, Microstation are a few from companies that are
> jshriv> pretty large for not selling any products in the "real" world. Note,
> jshriv> these companies don't support Linux either.
> If you have ear worked in a architecutral env. you would know that the
> autodesk .dwg format is the standard. you cannot work in the design world
> w/o autocad knowlegde, most companies wont even look at you w/o 5 or so
> years of acad experience. i know this as both my parents are architects,
> and most of thier friends are also archteicts who either work for or own
> large design/engineering companies, i see what they use. its acad.
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> jshriv> About the only "standards" I believe Microsoft has set is the Office
> jshriv> Suite. Far and away most offices have standardized on this set of tools.
> jshriv> Was this a good decision, not in my opinion, but everyone is bent on
> jshriv> "compatibility" with Office.
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> i have serveral linux servrs. i have at least 3 im looking at now (incl.
> the one that runs this list) that are strictly linux-only, however when
> imn writing a paper for school i cant imagine using one of the linux WP's.
> Works has a nice GUI (its a bit much but i can handle that) and the
> spelling and grammer checking abilty far outweigh those of any linux WP
> that i have seen.
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