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Re: hebrew MSWord6 under Wine - offtopic?
On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Gili Granot wrote:
>I heard news on NBC that Microsoft is porting Office to Java.
>If this is true, You may be able to run Java Hebrew Word direfctly
>in the futre.
It is still vaporware. And when, if, it does appear, it might be the
case that their Java will be different that Suns and will not work with
the Linux JDK distributed by Sun.
>I really dought that MS will really write something really portable,
>it is against their nature andpolicy to write something that will
>work with other OSs.
Indeed.
The reason they are producing these noises is to preempt Corel which
has already posted a demo of Wordperfect Java beta [it does work on
Linux with jdk 1.0.12-pl2]
You can dowload it from http://www.wordperfect.com/
alex
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