[Macpartners] dos emulator, non-ms spreadsheet

[Kerem B Limon]

Quoting arthur steinberg <arthurs at MIT.EDU>:

> 1) i am trying to load a dos emulator from 
> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23607
> 
> and its gui configurator from:
> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25480
> 
> i am not having much success installing it though.  i am running 
> macosX.3.9  does anyone have experience with this?
> 

I haven't tried this but alternatives include VirtualPC --
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/virtualpc.aspx?pid=virtualpc
--(Microsoft, not free) or Bochs -- http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ --(x86
emulator, free) running a real DOS disk image. Bochs is dog slow, but for DOS,
it shouldn't matter -- it'd be harder to configure though. It seems it hasn't
been updated in a while.

> i am interested in running an old very efficient editor called xywrite 
> that i have used for years, and would like to continue using on my mac.
> 
> 2) is there a non-microsoft spreadsheet available for the mac, 
> preferably some kind of freeware, that will read excel spreadsheets?
> 

There should probably be a port of Gnumeric available for Mac OS X via Fink --
http://fink.sourceforge.net/ -- and FinkCommander --
http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/ -- but neither are trivial setups
(compared to the Mac way of getting things working). OpenOffice.org --
http://www.openoffice.org/ -- which comes with a Mac OS X installer,
NeoOffice/J -- http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php -- a fork of
OpenOffice.org, and RagTime Solo for personal use -- http://www.comgrafix.com/
-- all include a spreadsheet component that should be Excel-savvy. There is
also the standalone BC Spreadsheet -- http://homepage.mac.com/gotterdamn/ --
and a few viewers listed at MacUpdate --
http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?os=Mac+OS+X&keywords=spreadsheet .

-Kerem

> thanks for your help.
> 
> arthur
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Kerem B. Limon
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