Re: [dev] Suckless word processing solution?

From: Anselm R Garbe <anselm_AT_garbe.us>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:39:02 +0100

2009/9/29 Kris Maglione <maglione.k_AT_gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:06:16PM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking for such thing as well. On IRC in the #suckless channel
>> someone posted a link to Word 5.5 just now, I think that might be an
>> option for the interim. I think Word 5.5 is the most usable MS Word
>> release ever created, it definately sucks less than any FOSS
>> alternative. But I'm uneasy on relying it in the long term.
>
> I think Corel was a lot better than Word in the Office 5 days.

Hmm, I'm not too sure that by the time when Word 5.5[1] was created
"Office" existed at all... I thought that "Office" branding was a
later invention, but I might be wrong.

[1] http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55_ben.exe

Kind regards,
Anselm
Received on Wed Sep 30 2009 - 07:39:02 UTC

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