Wendell Cochran wrote: > And so, with mass market in mind, commercial evangelists for Linux have > begun to bundle AbiWord, Applix, & WordPerfect 8, as well as the suites > StarOffice & OpenOffice. Hackers (& converts) can always resort to the > command line, or they can invoke X Window plus window managers to devise > custom GUIs at will. Either way, the Linux plethora of choices now > includes word processors. > > If AbiWord, why not XyWrite? You might get more mileage out of offering Xy *for Free* to world (3rd. world ?) markets via the 'Net -- to the extent that there may be any potential interest in an antique (command line, non-GUI) English lang. word-processor. I mean, just get it out there, and disregard the OS issue, as much as possible. Jordan