On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Craig White wrote:
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> 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.
That could be what my problem was- the floppies were FAT formated so I
could take them to the office, ditto for the .doc.
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> 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.
Well, bigger, newer, faster machine with more ram and it flies.
Haven't tried KOffice- Open Office looks promising eventually too.
Patrick
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> Craig
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