thanks!

the replacement seems to be openoffice.org:

knop2:~>> apt-get install openoffice.org
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gcc-3.0-base libstdc++3 libstlport4.5c102 openoffice.org-bin
openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gcc-3.0-base libstdc++3 libstlport4.5c102 openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin
openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-l10n-en
0 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 49.4MB of archives. After unpacking 151MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
knop2:~>>

so i will do that tonite when the bandwidth returns!
thank you

dave