Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Collaborative Editing / Tracking?
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From: "Eric Armstrong" <eric.armstrong@sun.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Collaborative Editing / Tracking? (03)
> By "collaborative", I presume you mean "over the web". Yes?
> If so, NexistWiki is the odds-on favorite from all of the options
> I've seen.
>
> For a less interactive approach to revision-tracking, OpenOffice
> must surely be able to deal with revision-tracking, mustn't it?
> (Or does it simply remove revisions on import?)
>
> There is also a much smaller and faster Office product, called
> ThinkFree, which runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac. I don't know
> whether it handles revisions, but it could be worth a look.
> http://www.thinkfree.com
>
> Other high-end editors like FrameMaker have that capacity
> as well. I don't know of anything open source or shareware
> that can do it, though, beyond Office look-alikes.
>
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> blincoln wrote:
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> > I realize that I'm either asking the most rudimentary question or
> > the most irritating one, but I have failed to find a clear answer in
> > my OHS-list archive.
> >
> > Is there a current non-microsoft option for collaborative editing
> > of simple text files? Microsoft Word seems to be the current
> > stand-out for decent change-tracking software, but I need to be
> > able to do this with a group of people who don't all have
> > Microsoft Office. *gasp*
> >
> > I know, what sort of stone-age delinquents can't get their hands on a pirate
> > copy of Word, but surely.. there is something available that offers
> > at least rudimentary multiple-editor support? (When I asked for options
> > from 3 different professional associates today, they all offered to give
> > me a burned CD of office2k, an amusing commentary on the state of affairs.)
> >
> > I know we'd discussed this as a feature that would be highly desireable
> > or even key to a good collaboration environment, but as for specific
> > options, my memory is blank.
> >
> > thanks for reminding me, pointing me at a URL, or telling me when the
> > last discussion of this was on the OHS group so I can find it in my
> > archives :)
> >
> > bcl
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