Is there star office for windows, my old ms office install is corrupt, and want to use something else, speech friendly? At 03:04 PM 12/19/01 +0500, you wrote: >Hi, >Staroffice runs under X windows, so in its standard form, I would say that >it is not accessable to blind people. If your only need is to read >ms-word documents, there are two viewers that works ok. >The one is called wv and is on the redhat cd set. The other one is catdoc >and can be found on the net. I have it here and can send it to you. >Catdoc is like the linux cat command but for ms-word documents. >I ended up using it more to listen to the ms documents that is sent to me. >Staroffice does read ms documents. It can also save documents in the >ms-word >format sothat ms-word users can read/edit what you have written. >The interaction between staroffice and ms is reported to be better in >version 6.0 beta than in Staroffice 5.2, but the beta seem to have some >other >bugs which might be sorted out in the full release. >My wife exclusivly use Staroffice. >regards, Willem > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >