Hello Melissa & other TB! list members following this thread, On Friday, October 31, 2003, you replied to my claim that:
>> Upgrades rarely cost the same as an original purchase. IBM's Speech Recognition software is another opprobrious exception, and they won't even provide a discount when purchasing the same version in 2 different languages. If you know of any good freeware or shareware Speech Recognition applications please do give a holler. MR> Which can be a good thing. Unfortunately, in the case of my favorite MR> Office software (StarOffice), the "upgrade" from v6 to v7 is basically MR> a "full price bug fix"! :-( Have your tried OpenOffice? The new and upgrade price are both $0.00 Isn't it basically the same as StarOffice? In my case, I started out with an all IBM computer, OS and Office Suite, which was Smart, although that was before IBM bought Lotus. And I still use Smartsuite more than I do Word or OpenOffice. OTOH, Borland's apps (later Novell's, then Corel's) never ran well on OS/2. Lotus's WordPro can open Word docs and save to Word, which is what I do when I finish something I need to send to someone else. I check it in Word first though, and often have to add graphics manually or make a few minor automatic formatting adjustments. I see you're using La Chauve-Souris! (v2.01.3) as your mailer. Does that mean you're using Linux? -- Keep on Kayaking, Douglas ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
