On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Steve Revilak wrote:

> Ken Nakata wrote (in response to Guy's survey):
> > 
> > >
> > > 1.  Word processor?
> 
> Emacs.  Yes I know it's really a "text editor", but I've come to adore
> it over the past few months.  In fact, whenever I need to make "pretty
> looking hard copy" I tend to do all the writing with emacs -- then use
> an old version of MS word (5.1) to do the formatting.

Try Lyx, or Klyx (same of Lyx with an enhaced GUI), there is also a simple
but nice office suite for free: SIAG 
> > > 2.  Spread sheet?
> > > 3.  Money management/accounting?
> > 
> 
> Quicken for NetBSD?  :-)  I have to admit, I understand where Guy is
> leading here.   If I could find something to fill this void, I'd spend a
> lot less time in MacOS.
> 
> Someone once suggested a database program called "grok" -- I found the
> source under the name "xmbasegrok", but unfortunately it didn't want to
> compile for me.  Did I miss it in the packages collection?
> 
> > 
> > > 4.  Browser?
> > 
> > Lynx on all platforms.  Netscape if available (i.e. on i386) and
> > necessary.
> 
> Lynx here as well. Even when using my mac as a mac, I've still preferred
> to use lynx.  However, for those Browsing on the mac OS side, There's
> another text-only browser called WannaBe that's well worth checking out.
> 
> > Note that, to many people, PC UN*X systems are still hacker's
> > intellectual toys (oh boy, am I going to be flamed to crisp for saying
> > this ;-).  They can be put to many very productive uses but they don't
> > necessarily include those tasks commonly encountered in an ordinary
> > office computing environment.
> 
> Nope Ken, we're all nerds here and we still love ya!
> 
> Unix is remarkably well suited to doing certain things -- software
> development for example.  RCS is a real joy -- even if you're only
> writing articles -- it's nice to have the ability to ge back to
> "revision x.x" conveniently.
> 
> Bulk manipulation of text is another application where unix excels.
> 
> <Shamless_plug_mode>  Earlier this year, I did two "custom" versions of
> the Java API documantation to make them mac-friendly -- truncating all
> the filenames to 31-chars or less, and repointing the internal links. 
> 50+ megs of http documents and a gazillion search and replace
> operations.  Done with NetBSD and a few sh scripts.
> </Shameless_plug_mode>
> 
> Speaking of which, typesetting under Unix is an area where I'd like to
> do more.  Once upon a time there was a "getting started" thread relating
> to this subject.  Anyone have suggestions for finding out more?
> 
> Steve Revilak
> revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu
> 
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