Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Yes, but you are adept and knowledgeable--not an ordinary user. And if you are doing WINE it certainly would be a lot easier to just use Windows. (shudder the thought) Certainly would be for someone without your special knowledge. Sam Ewalt On Sat, December 3, 2011 12:15 pm, Steve wrote: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > > On Sat, 3 Dec 2011, Jason Dodd wrote: > >> It's ok for personal use but if you business relies on interaction with >> outside companies who send you MS documents you really need MS. > > I've found ONE thing I couldn't do in Linux. Shockwave. Not > Flash, but stuff created with Adobe Director, i.e., > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave > Even then I got it to work under wine for a half second, and it would > likely have been possible if I'd had more bandwidth. > > MS Documents? Easy Peasy. Read, modify, write, return, whatever. > > -- > Steve Ackman > http://twoloonscoffee.com > http://twovoyagers.com > Arachne at FreeLists > -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS -- > > Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --