Oh boy. It sounds like they are going for nifty features in place of what most users really want, no hassles and standardization. It is to be hoped that they will supply a patch for 5.x that will allow opening and saving of documents in the new format. After all, 5.x is very nice, and maybe a lot of users feel no great need to upgrade.
Joel > >StarOffice 6 beta is supposed to do Office 2000/xp. That and loosing > >its desktop are the main new features, as far as I can see. > =============================== > And a whole new file system/structure. While the file systems/extensions > of the entire 5.x series were compatible with each other (you could open > a 5.2 .sdw file in 5.o w/o problem. 6.0's .sxw files can not be opened by > the 5.x series (though 6.0 c CAN save in that format. The new filesystem > appears to be quite compressed. Files that used to take up 88k now take > up about 9k. Mike _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
