At 16:48 20.12.98 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
We all *knew* it is commercial software, so why act surprised when
Corel handles the WP8 free edition just like other commercial companies
that release a 'free' or 'demo' version to potential customers? For
crying out loud, they are asking only
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Riccardo Tommasini wrote:
: At 16:48 20.12.98 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
: We all *knew* it is commercial software, so why act surprised when
: Corel handles the WP8 free edition just like other commercial companies
: that release a 'free' or 'demo' version to potential
ted told,
otherwise, what DO I do if I get a Word7 file by email?
You tell the sender politely (the first time) to send it in a real
standardized format. For email, this means plain text (not mime)
unless there is content (equations, tables, etc., or if it is a file
being sent for the
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From: Riccardo Tommasini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Monday, 21 December 1998 15:58
Subject: Re: WP 8 problem
Riccardo Tommasini
University of Berne - Institute of Applied
take your chances.
Jack
To: Charles Collicutt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org (bcc: Jack A Walker/BII)
Subject: Re: WP 8 problem
At 22:53 18.12.98 +, Charles wrote:
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Charles,
indeed I think all this satisfactory reports about WP8 and the fact that
one should
In a message dated 12/18/98 3:10:06 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) The filenames are in lowercase to begin with, I really can't see
complaining if your download changed the case of the names. Granted, the
What? Do you mean you got gui00.gz, gui[1-6]0.gz and not
Thanks for the info. I think for someone like me in Australia it
might be cheaper to order the personal CDROM.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Sunday, 20 December 1998 6:38
Subject: Re: WP 8
What? Do you mean you got gui00.gz, gui[1-6]0.gz and not
GUI[0-6]0.GZ
files? You didn't, like all the others who mentioned this, get
Upper-Case
files?
That's exactly what I mean. I downloaded gui0-6.gz AND guilg00.gz and
got all
lowercase file names - using IE 4.01 (yah, on my
Guys (and gals,)
I don't know what your problem is.
Tar DOES NOT CARE in any way whether it extracts from FOOBAR.MY.FANCY.EXTENSION
or GUIL001.GZ or GUIL001.TAR.GZ or guil001.gz or whatever.
Just invoke it as
tar xvfz filename
and it will extract the Runme script and the other installation
At 13:22 18.12.98 +, Dave Swegen wrote:
What do you mean useless? If you want a fully functional word processor with
all the extra bells and whistles go download bloaty-hog staroffice. I find it
rather amazing that people complain about something they paid nothing for.
Granted they might
Dear Richard,
thanks for your suggestions about Lyx. I am starting to use and appreciate it.
Until now I used XEmacs and I am always been happy about Latex. Of course
I will appreciate the whole Latex package much more, with the capabilities
offered by Lyx.
Ric
At 10:46 18.12.98 -0600, you
At 18:44 18.12.98 +0500, Wayne wrote:
I find it a total waste of time and effort. I would not bother to
even download it now _even_ if they said it was totally FREE.
Dear Wayne, if you ever had success installin WordPerfect 8 you had
found that it does not allow you to include equations and
At 22:53 18.12.98 +, Charles wrote:
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Dave Swegen wrote:
all the extra bells and whistles go download bloaty-hog staroffice. I
find it
rather amazing that people complain about something they paid nothing for.
Paid nothing for?! We have per minute phone bills here -
On 20-Dec-98 Riccardo Tommasini wrote:
Charles,
indeed I think all this satisfactory reports about WP8 and the fact
that one should not have complains about limitations of free a
software are an example of the poor's man happiness.
The points are:
- the cost it takes to dowload 23 MBytes
The free download version is in fact _very_ useful for anything
which
is plain text/tables/etc so long as you don't need equations or
drawing
capbilities.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
However, it would have been fair dealing for Corel to make the true
limitations clear
Christian Lavoie wrote:
The free download version is in fact _very_ useful for anything
which
is plain text/tables/etc so long as you don't need equations or
drawing
capbilities.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
However, it would have been fair dealing for Corel to make the
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 16:46 +0100, Riccardo Tommasini wrote:
Dave it seems you are really a funny guy!
Not funny, just weird :)
Don't you aunderstand the problem? Ok, the problem is as follows:
-Corel claims they release a fully fuctional release of WP.
Then, after installing what is
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Dave Swegen wrote:
all the extra bells and whistles go download bloaty-hog staroffice. I find it
rather amazing that people complain about something they paid nothing for.
Paid nothing for?! We have per minute phone bills here - downloading
something that big which turns
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In reply to:Dave Swegen
Quoting Dave Swegen([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:21 +0100, Riccardo Tommasini wrote:
I think there is a very big difference between StarDivision, who
released
a real Fully Functional version of StarOffice, and
Well I agree with Riccardo! It took me 18 hours to _finally_ get all
7 parts of the software. I found that there readme was written by
someone that didn't even try to load the 7 parts. I then found that
the Runme file didn't do anything (useful) so I had to figure out why
.gz files were not, if
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 22:53 +, Charles Collicutt wrote:
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Dave Swegen wrote:
all the extra bells and whistles go download bloaty-hog staroffice. I find
it
rather amazing that people complain about something they paid nothing for.
Paid nothing for?! We have per
Subject: Re: WP 8 problem
Date: Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:44:24PM -0500
In reply to:Tun Yang
Quoting Tun Yang([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Well I agree with Riccardo! It took me 18 hours to _finally_ get all
7 parts of the software. I found that there readme was written by
someone
I downloaded it and ran the installation program, but the first time I
tried to actually run WP 8 (yes, it was on the same day I installed), I
got a message that the demo period had expired (it's supposed to be 90
days) and asked me to enter a serial number. Subsequent tries give the
message:
An
You have to register at http://linux.corel.com.
But all this is unusefull cause WP is actually for nothing.
indeed I installed and tried WordPerfect. After this bothersome work
I discovered that, even though Corel said that this version is
fully functional, equations and graphics are enabled only
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Riccardo Tommasini wrote:
You have to register at http://linux.corel.com.
But all this is unusefull cause WP is actually for nothing.
indeed I installed and tried WordPerfect. After this bothersome work
I discovered that, even though Corel said that this version is
At 11:12 18.12.98 +0100, you wrote:
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Cleto Pescia wrote:
Yes, but this is explained at Corel's site:
http://linux.corel.com/linux8/highlights.htm
Hi Cleto, at the Highlights from corel, no mention
about equations or graphics is given.
This is an extract from that page:
riccardo wrote,
But all this is unusefull cause WP is actually for nothing.
indeed I installed and tried WordPerfect. After this bothersome work
I discovered that, even though Corel said that this version is
fully functional, equations and graphics are enabled only in
commercial versions of
At 09:35 18.12.98 Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
But all this is unusefull cause WP is actually for nothing.
indeed I installed and tried WordPerfect. After this bothersome work
I discovered that, even though Corel said that this version is
fully functional, equations and graphics are enabled
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:21 +0100, Riccardo Tommasini wrote:
I think there is a very big difference between StarDivision, who released
a real Fully Functional version of StarOffice, and Corel, who simply
made us lost our time to download a useless SW.
What do you mean useless? If you want a
have you tried a fairly recent lyx? It is very stable (there's only
one or two ways known to crash it), and the equations are very easy. I
bought a mac 128 in '84, and several more until I saw lyx's equations.
It also has a patch for mail-merge, which I wrote after realizing that
that would
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, George Bonser wrote:
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Dave Swegen wrote:
What do you mean useless? If you want a fully functional word processor with
all the extra bells and whistles go download bloaty-hog staroffice. I find
it
rather amazing that people complain about
Subject: Re: WP 8 problem
Date: Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 01:22:54PM +
In reply to:Dave Swegen
Quoting Dave Swegen([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:21 +0100, Riccardo Tommasini wrote:
I think there is a very big difference between StarDivision, who released
In a message dated 12/18/98 1:08:53 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well I agree with Riccardo! It took me 18 hours to _finally_ get all
7 parts of the software. I found that there readme was written by
someone that didn't even try to load the 7 parts. I then found
Subject: Re: WP 8 problem
Date: Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 02:27:28PM -0500
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
In a message dated 12/18/98 1:08:53 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well I agree with Riccardo! It took
Sorry, but I didn't experience ANY of the problems you're having...
Me either. I downloaded the whole 23M in just under two hours. On a 33.6
conenction no less!
2) My download took all of 2 hours for all 7 parts - and then I downloaded
the
full version for grins. NO problems at all.
3) The
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