-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 April 2003 09:12 am, Harry G wrote:

Does anyone have experience with SOT Office?

http://www.sot.com/en/linux/soto/

They claim some enhancements, such as better MS doc importation.

I don't recall seeing a reply to your question. After getting your mail I went to the sot site and downloaded the package. I had avoided sot in the past due to it being demo only at the time. - From what I saw on the website when I downloaded it It appears to be free for personal use now. Heres the mini review. It was much more convoluted to install than oo.org but after 3 tries It installed the way I wanted. (the 3 tries were due to my learning to get it to install where I wanted, not problems w/ the installer). Figuring out how to do a user install was totally harder than it needed to be. The instructions provided a jumoping off point but seemed to be incorrect. It didn't create its own menu settings, I had to do this myself. It doesn't really seem set up for system-wide installation, it would rather put 250 mb in each users home directory. (occasionally errors pop up when closing the prog as it can't write to /opt/soto where I installed it). I like the pretty red splash when it opens more than the blue one from oo.org. Actually includes a pdf manual, wish open office had this. This is the Biggest feature I saw from it over OO.org Basically it appears to run fine, I haven't used it extensively but it didn't screw up open office (which was my main concern). Aside from the manual I (personally) have no reason to choose it over open office. The import filters may or may not be better than open office's but I really don't have enough m$ documents around to test. Bottom line, If you've got open office or star office then you probably don't need this. If your unhappy with open offices import filters then SOT office may be worth looking into, at least it won't screw up what you already have installed. See ya - -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+pFjIBwgxlylUsJARAseGAJ4pQMdyDMhhg00nLfINEmqsTgX3sQCdEaLT 7C5zMXJFgkG6GrE6jhw394s= =svm2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----