[newbie] Star Ahhh!fice

1999-09-30 Thread David P. Greenberg
--I would like to thank Jeremy, John, Katie and Alan for responding to my plight with Scar Orifice (yes, correct spelling). I dunno, maybe 13 year old German kids have it in for me. I tried all your suggestions. All in all I spent over 3 _more_ hours trying to get it to work. Alan's suggestion

Re: [newbie] Star Ahhh!fice

1999-09-30 Thread Jose Alberto Abreu
"David P. Greenberg" wrote: However, it looks like I'll have to try WP8. I really need a decent word processor if I'm going to be able to use this OS in lieu of Winblows. Maxwell is OK but not great. Now go and try Abiword (http://www.abisource.com), its simple, elegant and with more than

Re: [newbie] Star Ahhh!fice

1999-09-30 Thread Jeanette Russo
Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: "David P. Greenberg" wrote: However, it looks like I'll have to try WP8. I really need a decent word processor if I'm going to be able to use this OS in lieu of Winblows. Maxwell is OK but not great. Now go and try Abiword (http://www.abisource.com), its

Re: [newbie] Star Ahhh!-fice

1999-09-29 Thread Jeremy Kersenbrock
David, I installed Star Office 5.1 successfully from a CD-ROM yesterday, so perhaps I can help you out. I installed is as a single user installation, so if you want a network installation or something else maybe someone else will help out. First of all are you shure you downloaded the version

Re: [newbie] Star Ahhh!-fice

1999-09-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote: --We've all heard tales of woe regarding that mess, Star Office. Well, here's my sad story. I downloaded the thing from the new Sun page. it took me 7 and 3/4 hours!!! That's at 33.6 connected at 31200. I'm NOT exagerating. After getting it, I cracked the

Re: [newbie] Star Ahhh!-fice

1999-09-29 Thread alann
"David P. Greenberg" wrote: --We've all heard tales of woe regarding that mess, Star Office. Well, here's my sad story. I downloaded the thing from the new Sun page. it took me 7 and 3/4 hours!!! That's at 33.6 connected at 31200. I'm NOT exagerating. After getting it, I cracked the tarball

[newbie] Star Ahhh!-fice

1999-09-28 Thread David P. Greenberg
--We've all heard tales of woe regarding that mess, Star Office. Well, here's my sad story. I downloaded the thing from the new Sun page. it took me 7 and 3/4 hours!!! That's at 33.6 connected at 31200. I'm NOT exagerating. After getting it, I cracked the tarball w/ kde and it unzipped. I opened