Why on earth is an office tied to OS/2? ;)

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Post #295,175 by Meerkat 10/26/07 7:38:32 PM Reply	Why on earth is an office tied to OS/2? ;) Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #295,176 by Andrew Grygus 10/26/07 8:13:06 PM Reply	Because . . . . . OS/2 is very good at running DOS programs. Each workstation has 3 to 6 DOS windows open at any one time, they are used intensively, and extremely fast network response is expected. And those DOS applications aren't going away because the owners feel they are a very major reason they have been able to thrash the competition and become multi-millionaires. They can answer in seconds inquiries their much larger competitors take up to half an hour on. And because I wrote those programs and don't care to rewrite them for some other OS. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #295,177 by bepatient 10/26/07 8:37:19 PM Reply	Could you drop a nix server in? And run openoffice on that? Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #295,183 by Andrew Grygus 10/26/07 11:42:16 PM Reply	He already has a Linux server . . . . . with RAID1, and an identical backup server that updates by NFS every evening just before the backup tape is run, and then the backup zip drive is written (he doesn't like the idea of losing data or having a server down). There is an X client for OS/2 but it looks pretty complicated to install. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #295,188 by bepatient 10/27/07 12:24:02 AM Reply	Can't be any more complicated than this problem :-) Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #295,206 by jake123 10/27/07 12:28:22 PM Reply	Hoblink is not bad at all for that. Take a look see at that one....

The horrors of Open Office - (Andrew Grygus) - (23) - Oct. 25, 2007, 10:40:05 PM EDT

What a nightmare. - (Another Scott) - (5) - Oct. 25, 2007, 10:55:10 PM EDT

No, it's not to be found there. - (Andrew Grygus) - (4) - Oct. 25, 2007, 11:16:15 PM EDT

What version of TCP/IP stack? -NT - (n3jja) - (3) - Oct. 29, 2007, 12:25:50 PM EDT

The stack isn't the problem part . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Oct. 29, 2007, 01:59:35 PM EDT

check your email to continue discussion. ;-) -NT - (n3jja) - (1) - Oct. 29, 2007, 02:31:46 PM EDT

Reply sent. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - Oct. 29, 2007, 05:59:38 PM EDT

why on earth is an office tool tied to an IP stack? -NT - (boxley) - (9) - Oct. 26, 2007, 09:54:50 AM EDT

Ain't got a clue . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Oct. 26, 2007, 12:21:19 PM EDT

hmmm, any way to make it think that it found it? - (boxley) - Oct. 26, 2007, 12:40:32 PM EDT

That's what *she* said :-D -NT - (imqwerky) - Oct. 26, 2007, 01:04:34 PM EDT

Why on earth is an office tied to OS/2? ;) -NT - (Meerkat) - (5) - Oct. 26, 2007, 07:38:32 PM EDT

Because . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (4) - Oct. 26, 2007, 08:13:06 PM EDT

Could you drop a nix server in? - (bepatient) - (3) - Oct. 26, 2007, 08:37:19 PM EDT

He already has a Linux server . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Oct. 26, 2007, 11:42:16 PM EDT

Can't be any more complicated than this problem :-) -NT - (bepatient) - Oct. 27, 2007, 12:24:02 AM EDT

Hoblink is not bad at all for that. - (jake123) - Oct. 27, 2007, 12:28:22 PM EDT

Working now. - (Andrew Grygus) - (6) - Oct. 30, 2007, 10:04:12 AM EDT

Oh, so it was that easy? Then WTH took you so long? -NT - (CRConrad) - Oct. 30, 2007, 06:37:09 AM EDT

It's a good thing you get paid by the hour, isn't it? ;-) - (Another Scott) - (4) - Oct. 30, 2007, 07:24:35 AM EDT

on jobs like that you never bill all yer hours - (boxley) - (3) - Oct. 30, 2007, 07:40:07 AM EDT

Concur - (jbrabeck) - Oct. 30, 2007, 08:20:22 AM EDT

Depends - (crazy) - Oct. 30, 2007, 08:20:41 AM EDT

Yup, they'll get billed for some development time . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Oct. 30, 2007, 10:12:35 AM EDT

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