On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 03:41:08 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

Ive been playing around with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, via their
Live CD.
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FWIW--

There are several emulators that will let you run windows
programs under Linux. This can be important where the windows
programs have features/macros that you use a lot. For example my
main statistics program is Excel with the WinStat add-in. Also I
like the BBC script add-ins for Word.

There appear to be several emulators out there.
One that is free is available at
http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/toptip4.shtml

Uncle George