[ltp] Lotus Office

[Richard Neill]

Dear Frank,

If you mean Lotus SmartSuite, I can confirm that SmartSuite Millennium 
installs/runs OK with WINE. (The free version is OK, you don't need 
cross-over office, you can use a "fake windows" installation). This may 
help you.

I don't know of any way to convert lotus format files into something 
else under Linux. Open Office.org doesn't do it, and nor does 
antiword/catdoc. Running "strings" on the file is a quick hack to read 
its content.

Regards

Richard


Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> For some time I have been struggling with Open Office file compability between 
> the MS side of this box and the Linux side.
> 
> One of the big issue has been spell check and thesaurus in both MS Office and 
> Open Office in Linus.
>  At times a file will some how indicate that no words are to be spelled 
> checked for some unknown reason. This occurs always with the same file in 
> both MS Office and Linux Open Office but never in MS Lotus Office. 
> 
> That caused me to wonder if there is a downloadable version of Linux Lotus 
> Office and to start looking on the Lotus site for such. 
> Unfortunately I was unable to find Lotus Office for Linux and/or to understand 
> that I had found it because of a variety collection of unknown names. I can 
> not ascertain what I am looking for.
> 
> Does anybody know if there is a downloadable Lotus Office for Linux and if so 
> what the URL would be.
> 
> Thanks
> Frank

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