Hi!
I'm using applixware 4 on a Debian Potato system. I have an old Pentium
100 with 64Mb RAM only. It looks fine, can read files coming from MS
office, and very fast. It takes only few seconds to startup om my machine.
So I don't know any good reason to upgrade it, or change it to another
office
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Pap Tibor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using applixware 4 on a Debian Potato system. I have an old
Pentium 100 with 64Mb RAM only. It looks fine, can read files coming
from MS office, and very fast. It takes only few seconds to startup
om my machine. So I
Hi,
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote:
A friend of mine runs Applixware 4.4.1 on his Debian system (mixture of
potato and woody). But he says that it's quite buggy and looks
outdated. But otherwise it performs quite well. For the installation he
took the RPMs and alienated them to deb
Aplixware 5.0 runs well for me under Potato. No problems at all with the
installation.
--
Pedro
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote:
sbello Now I'd like to know whether anybody has experience with the later
sbello Applixware 5 on Debian systems. Does it install without problems?
installs flawlessly, runs like crap though. for some reason it takes about
5 minutes to load on a p3-500
Ruud de Bruin wrote:
I have bought the latest version of ApplixWare and I would like to add
ApplixWare to WindowMaker so I can start it from there.
I've created an entry in /etc/menu like:
?package(applix):needs=x11 section=Apps/Editors icon=none
title=APPLIX command=...
However, after
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 06:51:33PM +, Ruud de Bruin wrote:
I have bought the latest version of ApplixWare and I would like to add
ApplixWare to WindowMaker so I can start it from there.
I've created an entry in /etc/menu like:
?package(applix):needs=x11 section=Apps/Editors icon=none
On 8 Oct 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote:
I have bought the latest version of ApplixWare and I would like to add
ApplixWare to WindowMaker so I can start it from there.
I've created an entry in /etc/menu like:
?package(applix):needs=x11 section=Apps/Editors icon=none
title=APPLIX command=...
I've got Applixware 4.3.7 installed sucessfully on a bo system. In my
case, however, it was a new installation of the product, rather than an
upgrade. So I didn't have to worry about rhmask...
On Sat, May 16, 1998 at 05:33:39AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
Anyone have Applixware 4.3.7 installed
Did you install applixware as the rpms or apply the Debian patches?
hmm.. Well, I still have the problem with rhmask
-Paul
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Greg Norris wrote:
I've got Applixware 4.3.7 installed sucessfully on a bo system. In my
case, however, it was a new installation of the product,
Thanks to everyone who offered help on this matter. I had hoped this program
would have been somewhat smaller...Sigh. I'm using Lyx on top of tetex for WP
and experimenting with xesslite for SS (which is quite nice, actually).
Xesslite takes up only about 4 Mb (with examples and html help files),
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote:
I would like to know what HD space one needs to install applixware office
suite? I have searched high and low for this piece of info to no avail. And
while we are at it, can someone give me a feedback on spreadsheet part of the
suite: does it provide
Damir J. Naden wrote:
I would like to know what HD space one needs to install applixware office
suite? I have searched high and low for this piece of info to no avail.
Package: applix
Installed-Size: 53801
Package: applix-english
Installed-Size: 53450
So about 107MB total.
And
while we are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am wanting to install applixware 4.3 on my debian system and would
like some advice as the best way to approach it. should i use alien to
convert the rpm packages or just run the install script or what? what
has proved successful for others?
For Applix 4.3.7, on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am wanting to install applixware 4.3 on my debian system and would
like some advice as the best way to approach it. should i use alien to
convert the rpm packages or just run the install script or what? what
has proved successful for others?
Alien has special
I've been using Applixware under Debian for several months.
I, too, am interested in the compatability especially when it comes to power
point and word.
There have only been a few times I've tried reading MS Word files, it worked
once, failed
once. I've output RTF files that were
Has anybody experience with Applixware Office suit (sold by redhat) on a
Debian system? Is the installation procedure straight forward? Can you give
comments on the compatibility of the file formats of Applixware, MS Word and
Ms Powerpoint?
I have used Applixware but not a lot. The
I, too, am interested in the compatability especially when it comes to power
point and word.
There are a lot of people out there with old SPARC stations on their networks
that are replacing them with NT workstations because Sun wants an arm and a leg
to upgrade them to Ultra's. Linux with
Chad, figure out how to make a patch file for applix and people will
then be able to use alien with the patch file on the applix rpm to get a
good deb from it.
Shaya
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaya Potter) writes:
Chad, figure out how to make a patch file for applix and people will
then be able to use alien with the patch file on the applix rpm to get a
good deb from it.
Shaya
Since I have the .deb of rpm installed (2.3.8-1), I was able to
install using the
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 06:56:55 -0400, Tom Malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Is anyone using redhats applixware on debian? How is it? The install
: difficult? Is it worth buying? I want to migrate away
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 06:56:55 -0400, Tom Malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Is anyone using redhats applixware on debian? How is it? The install
: difficult? Is it worth buying? I want to migrate away from msoffice and
: use linux exclusively if
Message from Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 8-5-97:
Hi,
I'm considering the possibility of getting Applixware. Could
someone who has used it give me some comments, basically because the
reader's letter I found in Linux Journal (pg 8 - issue 39 - July 97),
regarding
Dennis J Perkins wrote:
Has anyone tried installing Applixware 4.3 using alien?
I have, but then I'm the maintainer of alien..
I installed
alien from unstable, which has the appropriate patchfile. When I try
installing Applixware, I get the following errors:
cannot open package: No such
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
I installed
alien from unstable, which has the appropriate patchfile. When I try
installing Applixware, I get the following errors:
cannot open package: No such file or directory
cpio: premature end of archive
Error unpacking
Has anyone tried installing Applixware 4.3 using alien? I installed
alien from unstable, which has the appropriate patchfile. When I try
installing Applixware, I get the following errors:
cannot open package: No such file or directory
cpio: premature end of archive
Error unpacking
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
Hi,
I'm considering the possibility of getting Applixware. Could
someone who has used it give me some comments, basically because the
reader's letter I found in Linux Journal (pg 8 - issue 39 - July 97),
regarding the Review of
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
I've been using a beta of Word Perfect7 for the past few weeks, and it
seems, at least to me, to be just as good as the Word Perfect for windows.
It also doesn't need Motif. I think it might be statically linked.
I tried the beta but it expired after
Thanks to all who responded to my query on applixware. The gist of the responses
is that applixware can be installed and works. So I'll give it a try.
I need an office suite and would like to stay within Linux.
Regards, Richard
Richard Sevenich:
The recent Linux Journal review of Applixware makes that office suite sound
very attractive. It is, however, packaged for RedHat. Has someone on our list
had successful experience installing it via alien or whatever method? If so
I'd like to hear how smoothly the installation
I also would like to hear.
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Richard Sevenich wrote:
The recent Linux Journal review of Applixware makes that office suite sound
very attractive. It is, however, packaged for RedHat. Has someone on our list
had successful experience installing it via alien or whatever method?
Yes, I own a copy of applix. I also happen to maintain alien. Alien can
easily convert the rpm's that come on the applix CD into debian packages. I
took it an extra step and added a special patch file to applix for alien,
which should let it convert applix using less disk space and move the
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