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From: Scott Brim <swb@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Excel and X11?
In-Reply-To: dsr@mitre.org's message of 10 May 91 15: 09:18 GMT
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Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 15:29:14 GMT

In article <DSR.91May10100918@mir.mitre.org> dsr@mitre.org (Douglas S. Rand) writes:

   Excel isn't available and when Microsoft was here recently the 
   salesperson claimed they had no plans of going to UNIX.  On the
   other hand, Informix Wingz is available.  I'll know better how
   good it is pretty soon but not yet.

WingZ works well, but (on the Sparc at least) expects the OpenWindows
fonts, so either you run OpenWin (not necessarily olwm) or spend a lot
of time trying to port fonts.