Re: Smart Suite and reading Word files....

["Sherry" sherry@xxxxxxxx]

have I missed something.. is smart suite out?


> I am using Xy 3.54 and 4 under OS/2, Warp, recently upgraded to
> FixPack 35. A few months ago I bought the first version of Lotus
> SmartSuite for OS/2. I did not do much with it, but my wife has told
> me that the word processing program in it can translate and read
> files written in Microsoft Word. That would be useful to me because
> I sometimes get Word files as attachments to e-mail.  I played with
> Lotus Word Pro in it for a while, but it was so slow and cumbersome
> compared to XyWrite that there did not seem to be any point to
> learning it.
>
> Now there is a new version of SmartSuite out, and with the academic
> discount it would cost $81. But I have been told that it will not
> run under Warp, that I will need to change to Merlin, aka OS/2 4, in
> order to run any of it. Something about 32-bit code. Is this true?
>
> Jonathan
> Jonathan D. Beard
> Science Writer-Photo Researcher
> 938 N. Alameda, Las Cruces, NM 88005-2125 USA
> jbeard@xxxxxxxx voice 505-647-0850

Sherry@xxxxxxxx
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