On 03 May 2002 09:56:09 +1000 Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a quick note on SO6. I have seen claims here that it opens > everything faultlessly and that it crashes and is totally useless. It > turns out that both are true :-) > > Try to open a word doc file received as an attachment with the "Open in > StarOffice" dialog - crash! Try to open a word doc in the same way from > Konq - crash. Open SO6, then use the File > Open on the same docs - no > problem. > > It may not be faultless, but used this way it looks pretty good to me so > far. Hopefully Sun and/or Mandrake will make the "open with" way of > doing things work soon. Could actually be a Mandrake issue I guess. > > HTH > Brian oh i've found OpenOffice 1.0 ( released just a couple of days ago ) to be soooo much better than any other Linux Office suite.. just an example. try to open a PowerPoint presentation, but not "pps" format, which would normally open in M$ Powerpoint, but the other one, the "ppt", which in windoze simply starts the presentation after double-clicking it. try to open a ppt file in OpenOffice 6* try to open a ppt file in StarOffice * you will be lucky if it doesn't just segfault on you. but OO 1.0 opens it no problem! now i can delete wine. hehehehe. Damian
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