[Gllug] Office software

[Xander D Harkness]

On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 10:44, Alain Williams wrote:
> > spreadsheets with no apparent loss of formatting, even when printed (CUPS).
> 
> I have been playing with OpenOffice. Installed it as root, run initial test
> (as root), all OK. Run it as a normal user, lots of probs (like core dumping
> when you type a space at the end of the first word).
> 
> Lots of digging: find that if you give the installer the (undocumented) '-net'
> option it is supposed to work. I try that & on startup it complains about a missing
> file: check the mail list archive and lots of people ask where to get the file from,
> but no reply :-(
> 
> I get the feeling (having previously played with StarOffice) that it has been
> ported to *nix with little understanding of the nature of *nix systems
> (ie multi user), it is still a big application - ie need a m/c with lots of RAM
> to run it on.
Star Office and Open Office both kill my laptop - brick/paperweight
dead.  I am not sure where to start giving bug reports ;-).

I would prefer to use Star/Open Office

Cheers
Xander


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