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 Message 5314 
 Kurt Weiske to Dan Clough 
 Re: BBS Software Recommendations 
 27 Nov 24 06:52:01 
 
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MSGID: 885.bbscarni@1:218/1 2bac6b86
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PID: Synchronet 3.20a-Win32 master/549e40b39 Nov 04 202 MSC 1916
TID: SBBSecho 3.21-Win32 master/549e40b39 Nov 04 2024 21:43 MSC 1916
BBSID: REALITY
CHRS: CP437 2
-=> Dan Clough wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 KW> I don't remember if WINE was around back then...

 DC> I don't know if it was.  I've never needed, wanted, nor used WINE
 DC> though.

I did just fine with AbiWord and Libreoffice, never had a need for
Microsoft Office on Linux - nor could I ever get it working well.

Photoshop was my one hold-out. I'm a photographer, and I could never get
the hang of GIMP. It ran nicely under WINE when I needed it on my
laptop.


 
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