On May 3, 2006, at 9:00 AM, Russell Hires wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 05:52 -0700, William Coulter wrote:
>> This is off topic because it is a Mac question with windows.
>>
>> My question is my friend has an old Mac. I believe that he made
>> all his documents in ether apple
>> works or clairs(sp) works. Is there a version of openoffice that
>> would run in os9.2?
>
> No! There isn't even a version that runs (well) in OS X. There are
> versions that run in something called fink for OS X. I believe that
> fink allows for X windows to run in OS X. Yeah, it frustrates me a
> bit. :-)
There is a native build of OOx 2.x available for OS X, but it
requires the X11 subsystem, runs a tad slow for that reason, and
doesn't use all of the fonts on the system. One would think that
they'd have made a version that would run on OS 9 using Carbon, but
all active development is on OS X. NeoJOffice is an alternative that
attempts to implement OOo without needing the X11 subsystem, but it's
far behind OOo and tends to crash (at least it does on my iBook). I
ended up getting a copy of Office:mac and iWork.
AppleWorks 6 will save in MS Word format, and there is a Windows
version available from Apple.
>
>> What I was thinking of doing was to convert his files from
>> appleworks or clairsworks to openoffice.
>
> Really, then he should save his docs as .rtf or something like
> that. If you want to keep formatting and such, you can save as Word
> 5.-ish...I think...Then have OOo do its thing and read those files.
> It would be the same process if he had MS Office. Though there is
> an MS Office version for OS 9. :-|
>
> Russell
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