Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (2) a giant bloated whale, but actually seems to work pretty well for >> light word-processing duties and reading .doc files I get in the mail > > Maybe you should try abiword.
Yeah, I used to use abiword back in the day, but it was always _horribly_ flaky -- it crashed a lot, even on simple documents, and seemed to randomly reformat text in odd ways based on the phase of the moon. oowriter is indeed very bloated, and also used to be kind of flaky (never as bad as abiword in my experience though), but it seems pretty good these days. I suppose abiword has probably improved as well, so I should at least check it out, but I'm pretty put off by my previous experiences with it. -Miles -- People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. -- Donald Knuth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
