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Old 10-30-2008, 12:29 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
Why? OpenOffice supports .doc and I think 3.0 supports .docx files and it runs on Linux. Why does linux make it not easy? I run MS Office 2008 on my Mac that reads those files, and Mac is basically a BSD based machine.
Yes, but your Mac does not have 128 MB of memory and a relatively underpowered CPU. There are less resource hungry apps than OpenOffice that might work. For example Abiword has been ported to the iLiad. What is missing is a lightweight DOC/DOCX reader (not a full word processor). The reason that Plastic Logic can supply this is that it runs WinCE, and so has a reader app provided by MicroSoft.
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