Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
>On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 01:44:15PM +0200, Sean Doran wrote:
>>
>> Hi -
>>
>>   Does anyone actually run Linux Office Suite 99 under Linux
>> emulation on -current?
>>
>>   http://www.suse.de/e/software/linux_office/
>
>I run Applixware 4.3 under NetBSD 1.3F and it works well - but it
>doesn't load all winword documents, only some of them.  Maybe the
>latest version of Applixware does better, don't know..
>
>Applix is very stable and reasonably priced, IMHO.  I've had problems
>with XFree getting very slow with Applix, but it's possible this is
>caused by the fvwm window manager (haven't had the time to test with
>other wm's yet).

from the freebsd-emulation list, it appears that applixware can't read
fast-saved office documents. That's the default mode. It's a very serious
limitation when you're trying to interchange documents.