Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
Hi list,
I can't find a LEM list specific to OS X but this list has always been very helpful, so I hope you don't mind.
I can't justify spending more of my hard-earned $$$ for another version of MS Office to run on OS X when I already have Word 5.1a/Excel 4 and Office 98. AppleWorks isn't quite "there" yet and none of the free alternatives I've seen (like AbiWord, OpenOffice.org) are very polished (i.e. I'm not comfortable letting my wife use them). So I'm on a quest to get my old versions running on Panther.
I installed Word/Excel on my old SE/30 running 7.1. AppleTalk was incompatible between this and the G5, but with the help of my G3 running OS 9 I got everything copied over. Word seems to run fine in the very minor testing I did. Excel launches, but as soon as I hit a menu it crashes. So I pop the Office 98 CD in and drag the apps over. Launching one of the apps fires up "first run" like it's supposed to, but it immediately dies. I can run the apps on the G3 over the network, but not on the G5.
We can probably cope with Word 5 since I have the patch to let it open Word 6 and 97/98 files. I'm usually the one using spreadsheets, and I can cope with OO.o. But getting these other apps running would be very nice.
Any ideas or hints? I've tried LEM, macosxhints.com, Google. I have heard of people doing this but no one mentions this problem. Am I the only one?
Also, any thoughts on how my wife and I can share one mailbox from our two accounts would be great. The hints at macosxhints.com are years old and sounded like they were kind of dodgy. I'm hoping to move the Netscape mailbox file from our ancient P-II and have everything "just work" when I point the email app at the right mailbox, then I can at last retire that PC. I'm also hopeful that we can use different email apps (Mail.app, Thunderbird, etc) if we choose.
Thanks!!! Tim
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