[lbo-talk] Open Office v. MS Office

[Chuck Grimes]

Won't kill you to slum it with the rest of them once in a while.

Bill O'Connor

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Thanks, and thanks to all who responded.

I wish Emacs for XP worked the way it did on FreeBSD, but it doesn't. They
had to pre-compile Emacs into its lowest functional form. I am not sure 
about the technicalities. Basically it is isolated from any of its former 
interactions with many OS functions.

This same isolation also shows up in the LaTeX distribution for XP. It sits 
in some directory with all its components and packages and works as a stand 
alone. It works, but it has lost much of it's flexibility that TeX had.

CG