On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and > AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any > other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the > goals is being able to read and write MS Word files. >
AbiWord has that goal and is likely to achieve it in a relatively short timeframe, I'm sure the others have it too but the authors probably don't ahve the time/expertise to implement it. (Though, since AbiWord is GPL, if it manages it the others may follow in short order by borrowing the code.) Other projects include: gwp (Gnome Word Processor) go (Another Gnome Word Processor) Maxwell (was a commercial product, now GPL) KWord (KDE word processor) In the meantime you can sort of read word files with the 'catdoc' program which is in Debian... Havoc
