Office-Compatibility...

[Kit Plummer]

I agree with the statement about RAM requirements.  I am using soffice
on a laptop.  StarOffice is a pig.  The single interface to all the apps
is interesting but definitely raises the memory stakes...

Kit

On 25 Jul 2001 09:54:33 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> Patrick Fleming wrote:
> > 
> > I have used StartOffice 6.2 for some time- not necessarily on a daily
> > basis- and have no problems saving the .doc format. What I did find was
> > once a file was named and saved, doing a 'save-as' seems to not work. I
> > was trying to save from the personal work folder to a floppy at the time
> > (a couple of times actually) when that particular function seemed to not
> > want to work. I just did cp /personal/folder/*.doc /mnt/floppy and it was
> > there.
> > The only thing that I had trouble with was the database (which they
> > stripped out of oppenoffice due to compatiblity problems- to be redone
> > later) I found that the fields were shorter so all data didn't carry from
> > my previous database/office software (PerfectWorks for Win3.1/95- which I
> > really liked BTW)
> > And the DoD just moved quite a few machines (I think they were support
> > personnel machines) completely away from anything Win- based to Star
> > Office. They were already paying for support from Sun so the move costs
> > them nothing but time- and the help desk is all in one place now.
> > 
> > Patrick
> > 
> ------------
> The problem with StarOffice seems to center on using StarOffice, using
> the Save command to save '.doc' files on FAT volumes. I don't seem to
> have problems saving on smbfs volumes but on local FAT volumes. I can
> save '.doc' files on local e2fs volumes and copy them over but that is
> rather painful.
> 
> The other issues that I seem to have with StarOffice - needs a lot of
> RAM (at least 128M though RAM is cheap these days), I have found little
> redemption for the mail program and I am not overly fond of their window
> management. I have been playing with KOffice (1.0) and it looks like it
> will be quite nice when it grows up and apparently we are just a month
> or so away from 1.1 stable.
> 
> Craig
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