Norman,
I used StarOffice 5.x (x = 1 or 2 I can't remember) for a while on Linux. It was very stable but the email was difficult to get working. I just couldn't understand their concept - I don't know what the designer was smoking at the time - but IIRC it wasn't a case of click the Inbox icon and start reading your messages. I just continued using Netscape Messenger for email. Anyway I installed the version for Win98 and it was very unstable, crashed all the time. I got StarOffice by downloading it at work (previous firm) and getting someone to put it on a CD. Not so easy to do at this place - I'd probably have to prepare a business justification and get it signed off in triplicate ;) I did have a look at the Open Office website a while ago; I'll have to revisit it. No chance of a version for Q40 Linux I suppose?? :o) Ian. >-----Original Message----- >From: Norman Dunbar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 12 July 2002 11:59 >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Subject: RE: [ql-users] SMSQ Source upgrading, & assembling. > > > >Ian, > >if it's off topic then - oops - and we'll continue on QL-Chat instead. > >Have you tried OpenOffice.org yet. > >It can read (and write) M$Office format files quite happily >and is a free >download. I have it at home on Linux and on Windows (to >replace our aged >copy of M$Office) and we have no problems with it. A colleague >at work has >yet top find a Word doc that it cannot open - and he has some >docs that even >Word fails to open, but OOo just does it ! > >Try a download (big) from http://www.openoffice.org and be >happy. (if the >size puts you off, wait a couple of weeks for a PC magazine to >give it away >- Linux Format already did with the Linux version.) > >PS. The OOo version has Spreadsheet, Wordy Pro and >Presentation built in, >but no Database. >I believe the DB stuff was proprietory, so you have to pay >(Sun for Start >Office) to get that feature. > >PPS. Not that Access counts as a proper database anyway :o) > >------------------------------------- >Norman Dunbar >Database/Unix administrator >Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Tel: 0113 289 6265 >Fax: 0113 289 3146 >URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com >------------------------------------- > >This email is intended only for the use of the addressees >named above and >may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an >addressee you >must not read it and must not use any information contained in >it, nor copy >it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the >addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received >this email >and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx >Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990. > Visit our website at http://www.ubswarburg.com This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments.
