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MS Office for Linux?



I really hate when Office 97 crashes trying to load a file it wrote!

To back up your Windows NT registry, use the included RDISK utility.

-- Mike


On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Kuan Lee wrote:

> On a couple of occasions I've had Office 97 crash _while_ saving my file.
> You would think it would be able to read/write it's own format reliably...
> Naturally, it saved without doing a backup first, so I lost half the
> document, wasting it and 1/2 days work.
> 
> I don't want to even get into NT becoming unsalvageable because of corruption
> of the registry.  It was part of a normal uninstall; machine was fine until
> it was time to reboot.  Wasted 1.5 days to rebuild my notebook.


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