topic Re: Netscape plugins in Operating System - HP-UX

Netscape plugins

Roger Hnedriks — Wed, 01 Dec 1999 14:06:22 GMT

I'm looking for some plugins who are able to view some "Bill Gates" SW, like
word and excel documents, on top of Unix of course.
Is there some stuff of SUN that can be used ?

Re: Netscape plugins

Neil Gast_1 — Wed, 01 Dec 1999 14:14:12 GMT

I have never seen any plugins that will read Word and Excel docs. However...

There is a wonderful little tool called StarOffice available from Sun. It's not
available for HP, but will run under Solaris (of course), Linux, Windows, and
OS/2.
I am currently using it on my Linux laptop to read and write Word and Excel
docs.
Did I mention it's free? You can download directly from Sun, or you can buy the
full distribution on CDROM for about ten dollars.

MrNeil

Re: Netscape plugins

Ralf Hildebrandt_1 — Tue, 14 Dec 1999 05:43:16 GMT

You might try Brandon Long's programs for that.
They're not really "plugins" (and Netscape is a really bad mailreader), but it
might help.
http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/#tnef2txt
http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/#rtf
http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/#catdoc