[newbie] Star Office 6.0

2003-03-30 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Sirs, Can anyone sell me Star Office 6.0 please. Please let me know how much it will cost. Thank you in anticipation, -- Malcolm Candlish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6.0

2003-03-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 29 March 2003 10:31 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Sirs, Can anyone sell me Star Office 6.0 please. Please let me know how much it will cost. Thank you in anticipation, Malcom, it costs about $80 US last I looked but you get it as part of the ML 9.1 power Pack for $69 US if you

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6.0

2003-03-30 Thread eric huff
9.1 power Pack for $69 US if you want to wait or get the 9.0 power pack that is available now from MandrakeSoft. Also it is available through Mandrake Club as a free download for the second level membership. Think that is the silver membership. HTH i haven't really looked on the cds yet, but

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6.0

2003-03-30 Thread Miark
$50 at half.com. This is the same guy I bought it from last month for the same price. http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1106392416domain_id=2265meta_id=5 Miark On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:18:11 -0800 eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 9.1 power Pack for $69 US if you want to wait or

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6.0

2003-03-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 30 March 2003 01:18 pm, eric huff wrote: 9.1 power Pack for $69 US if you want to wait or get the 9.0 power pack that is available now from MandrakeSoft. Also it is available through Mandrake Club as a free download for the second level membership. Think that is the silver

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6.0

2003-03-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 13:31, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Sirs, Can anyone sell me Star Office 6.0 please. Please let me know how much it will cost. Thank you in anticipation, You should be able to get Star Office 6.0 directly from Sun - so if you go to the Star Office homesite/portal, you

Re: [newbie] Star Office Or OO.org can't save /wrong parameter

2003-03-02 Thread Vahur Lokk
Ühel kenal päeval (pühapäev, 2. märts 2003 06:34) kirjutas Bob Read: I've been thru the books and searched back posts but no help. I can't seem to get Star Office or OO.org installed properly! Every time I try to save a file I get a message like can't save. Program started under wrong

RE: [newbie] Star Office Or OO.org can't save /wrong parameter

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
First, as root: setup -net Then hit setup again as user. Also DL the latest updates from Sun for SO6. http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/xprod-StarOfficenav= pub-patches Is the site to DL the updates. Roc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Star Office Or OO.org can't save /wrong parameter

2003-03-01 Thread Bob Read
I've been thru the books and searched back posts but no help. I can't seem to get Star Office or OO.org installed properly! Every time I try to save a file I get a message like can't save. Program started under wrong parameter. Could someone steer me to some info on how to initialize SO/OO

Re: [newbie] Star Office Or OO.org can't save /wrong parameter

2003-03-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 01 March 2003 11:34 pm, Bob Read wrote: I've been thru the books and searched back posts but no help. I can't seem to get Star Office or OO.org installed properly! Every time I try to save a file I get a message like can't save. Program started under wrong parameter. Could

[newbie] Star Office Patch

2003-01-27 Thread Anne Wilson
Following the problems I've had recently, I found that there is a patch available, so I downloaded it. On installation I got error messages like An error occurred while unpacking the file basicsrvweb.zip. There is probably not enough disk space. This is unlikely. Has anyone else installed

Re: [newbie] Star Office Patch

2003-01-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 27 Jan 2003 9:51 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 19:33, Anne Wilson wrote: Following the problems I've had recently, I found that there is a patch available, so I downloaded it. On installation I got error messages like An error occurred while unpacking the file

Re: [newbie] Star Office Patch - Incredible

2003-01-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 27 Jan 2003 8:33 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Following the problems I've had recently, I found that there is a patch available, so I downloaded it. On installation I got error messages like An error occurred while unpacking the file basicsrvweb.zip. There is probably not enough disk

Re: [newbie] Star Office beats me

2003-01-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 3:33 am, erylon hines wrote: On Wednesday 22 January 2003 06:47 am, you wrote: The spontaneous logouts were causing havoc in my file, as every backup was resulting in yet another corrupted file - at least that's what it looks like. Are you backing up to another

[newbie] Star Office beats me

2003-01-22 Thread Anne Wilson
The spontaneous logouts were causing havoc in my file, as every backup was resulting in yet another corrupted file - at least that's what it looks like. I decided to split the file, reasoning that if I took out all the info about ImageMagic use it would halve the size of it :) All went well,

RE: [newbie] Star Office beats me

2003-01-22 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Anne, Send it to me. Tony. -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Star Office beats me The spontaneous logouts were causing havoc in my file, as every backup was resulting

Re: [newbie] Star Office beats me This is off list now

2003-01-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 3:04 pm, you wrote: Is anyone who uses SO or OOo willing to take one of the files and try to open it to see what happens? It doesn't seem to put any of your other files at risk. You would need to open it, navigate it a bit, copy and paste to an empty file, and so on,

Re: [newbie] Star Office beats me This is off list now

2003-01-22 Thread et
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 10:02 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 3:04 pm, you wrote: Is anyone who uses SO or OOo willing to take one of the files and try to open it to see what happens? It doesn't seem to put any of your other files at risk. You would need to open it,

Re: [newbie] Star Office beats me This is off list now

2003-01-22 Thread et
Dammn as I was repling a car hit a pole about three block from here,,, did not make the power go out but sure was enough to go for a quick shutdown... I can open it in SO if I have saved it to the home folder On Wednesday 22 January 2003 10:02 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003

Re: [newbie] Star Office beats me This is off list now

2003-01-22 Thread et
S Sorry everyone...this should not have gotten back ON list Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Star Office beats me

2003-01-22 Thread Damian Gatabria
Is anyone who uses SO or OOo willing to take one of the files and try to open it to see what happens? It doesn't seem to put any of your other files at risk. You would need to open it, navigate it a bit, copy and paste to an empty file, and so on, to see if it behaves. Anne I wanna try

RE: [newbie] Star Office beats me

2003-01-22 Thread Robert Wideman
22, 2003 8:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Star Office beats me The spontaneous logouts were causing havoc in my file, as every backup was resulting in yet another corrupted file - at least that's what it looks like. I decided to split the file, reasoning that if I took out

Re: [newbie] Star Office beats me

2003-01-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 4:47 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Do you have SO6 installed? I havent had a problem with mine. I will be happy to try the files. I have SO6 and OOo so i can test it in both. Just send the files. Thanks, Rob Damian. It looks as though one of the files is OK and the

Re: [newbie] Star Office beats me

2003-01-22 Thread Terry Sheltra
Hey Anne, I'd like to give it a try. I use OO off and on, and haven't had any problems with stability with it. Terry Anne Wilson wrote: The spontaneous logouts were causing havoc in my file, as every backup was resulting in yet another corrupted file - at least that's what it looks like.

Re: [newbie] Star Office beats me

2003-01-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 6:22 pm, et wrote: probly not mem,,, prolly the file itself, and might be fixed by sending as e-mail... off list I sent it back to you with the name changed slightly Well, it opened fine and looked OK, so I opened the other file, the source for copying, that Tony had

Re: [newbie] Star Office beats me

2003-01-22 Thread et
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 01:39 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 22 Jan 2003 6:22 pm, et wrote: probly not mem,,, prolly the file itself, and might be fixed by sending as e-mail... off list I sent it back to you with the name changed slightly Well, it opened fine and looked OK, so I

Re: [newbie] Star Office beats me

2003-01-22 Thread erylon hines
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 06:47 am, you wrote: The spontaneous logouts were causing havoc in my file, as every backup was resulting in yet another corrupted file - at least that's what it looks like. Are you backing up to another machine over a network? I had a bad NIC that caused

Re: [newbie] Star Office question

2002-08-19 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Chris Pollock wrote: Relating to my Adabas Database question, should I have installed SO 6.0 as a stand alone or as network? How does/will this affect the operation of Adabas? Hi Chris, Either way would be fine. as a stand alone the only one then that can us SO on

Re: [newbie] Star Office question

2002-08-19 Thread et
On Monday 19 August 2002 06:47 am, you wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Chris Pollock wrote: Relating to my Adabas Database question, should I have installed SO 6.0 as a stand alone or as network? How does/will this affect the operation of Adabas? Hi Chris, Either way would be fine. as a

Re: [newbie] Star Office question

2002-08-19 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, et wrote: On Monday 19 August 2002 06:47 am, you wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Chris Pollock wrote: Relating to my Adabas Database question, should I have installed SO 6.0 as a stand alone or as network? How does/will this affect the operation of Adabas? Hi

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6 Adabas question

2002-06-06 Thread D. Olson
As I said, all you need is OpenOffice... Unless Mandrake installed dBase when I wasn't looking. Just press F4... It's been a long time since I used dBase (III, III+, and IV) (on dos and Windows), but, don't you need the dBase engine in addition to whatever data Open/StarOffice puts out, to

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6 Adabas question

2002-06-05 Thread D. Olson
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:56 pm, you wrote: Where can you get a copy of dBase? *sigh* It's a database format that Open/StarOffice uses, just like it supports Microsoft Word and Excel documents without you needing to use Microsoft software to edit the documents... Like I said, press F4

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6 Adabas question

2002-06-05 Thread T C
Thanks for your patience. I have not needed to use a database program before and I am just now having to learn how to use one. TC --- D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:56 pm, you wrote: Where can you get a copy of dBase? *sigh* It's a database format that

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6 Adabas question

2002-06-05 Thread Randy Kramer
D. Olson wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:56 pm, you wrote: Where can you get a copy of dBase? It's a database format that Open/StarOffice uses, just like it supports Microsoft Word and Excel documents without you needing to use Microsoft software to edit the documents... Like I

[newbie] Star Office 6 Adabas question

2002-06-04 Thread mike
Currently I'm using Mandrake 8.2 with Star Office 6 and Adabas installed for database. I previously used Star Office 5.2 with Adabas and had set up several small relational databases for home and business use. I had no problems. With SO 6, I can't figure out how to even launch Adabas

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6 Adabas question

2002-06-04 Thread D. Olson
Umm... That's cuz Adabas is a file format, not a database editor... There is NO GUI. You can do databases in OpenOffice too... When you are in Writer or any other modules, press F4. That'll open up the data sources. Take it from there. D.Olson On Tuesday 04 June 2002 09:50 am, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6 Adabas question

2002-06-04 Thread mike
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 02:49 pm, you wrote: Umm... That's cuz Adabas is a file format, not a database editor... There is NO GUI. You can do databases in OpenOffice too... When you are in Writer or any other modules, press F4. That'll open up the data sources. Take it from there. D.Olson

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6 Adabas question

2002-06-04 Thread D. Olson
Yeah, you need to add a new data source, then add a new table, then add a link to a document to edit... It works nearly the same as in 5.2. There must be some tutorial online somewhere. And by the way, AdabasD's file format sucks, IMHO. I just use dBase. It's simple and has no limitations.

Re: [newbie] star office and jre

2002-03-07 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 10:28 pm, you wrote: sorry for asking a dumb question? 1) where is the archives? 2) and shouldn't there be a link in the list signiture? As I know this question must have been asked hundreds of times... I have installed the IBM jre it (the loader) is at

[newbie] star office and jre

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
sorry for asking a dumb question? 1) where is the archives? 2) and shouldn't there be a link in the list signiture? As I know this question must have been asked hundreds of times... I have installed the IBM jre it (the loader) is at /usr/jre118/bin/linux/jre But for the life of me I can't get

Re: [newbie] star office and jre

2002-03-06 Thread Damian Gatabria
I have installed the IBM jre it (the loader) is at /usr/jre118/bin/linux/jre But for the life of me I can't get star office to find it. I use the dialog browser to get to /usr/jre118/bin/linux but no jre shows, and star office says it coud not find it. Help! TIA uhm.. i once installed

Re: [newbie] star office

2002-02-19 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, M. Garcia wrote: %_I'm trying to learn to install Star Office under Mandrake 8.1 I've downloaded the .bin but I am unable to get it to install. It gives me a permissions error. Running it as root was the same. I came across something called chmod. but I'm not sure

Re: [newbie] star office

2002-02-19 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 14:32, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, M. Garcia wrote: %_I'm trying to learn to install Star Office under Mandrake 8.1 I've downloaded the .bin but I am unable to get it to install. It gives me a permissions error. Running it as root was the same. I

[newbie] star office

2002-02-18 Thread M. Garcia
I'm trying to learn to install Star Office underMandrake 8.1 I've downloaded the .bin but I am unable to get it to install. It gives me a permissions error. Running it as root was the same. I came across something called chmod. but I'm not sure what it is. Any help will be appreciated.

Re: [newbie] star office

2002-02-18 Thread Maila Garcia
Thanks, I'll give it a try tomorrow. Mike - Original Message - From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] star office chmod is what you need. you need to make the .bin file executable. to do

Re: [newbie] Star Office as RPM ?

2002-02-02 Thread Chris Keelan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:02:53 -0500: In attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Hanan Z. AL-Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: [snip] - file.rpm will be installed by the rpm - option command On the road to guruhood, stop and read the

Re: [newbie] Star Office as RPM ?

2002-02-01 Thread shane
On Friday 01 February 2002 23:49, you spoke unto me thusly: Hi All, Does anyone know if Star Office comes in RPM format ? i doubt it, but ya never know if not, then would someone please tell me ( in steps) how to install it ? well the simple way is to download it, open it with archiver

Re: [newbie] Star Office as RPM ?

2002-02-01 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Saturday 02 February 2002 09:49, Hanan Z. AL-Shargi wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know if Star Office comes in RPM format ? if not, then would someone please tell me ( in steps) how to install it ? I'm a newbie ( as I'm still posting here in this list :-) ) and have never installed any thing

Re: [newbie] Star Office as RPM ?

2002-02-01 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Saturday 02 February 2002 06:48, Michel Clasquin wrote: 4. untar and gunzip the file (use the winzip-like kab application if you like, otherwise just use tar -xvzf install641_linux_intel.tar.gz ENTER from the command line, without the quotes of course) oops there were quotes in there

Re: [newbie] Star Office as RPM ?

2002-02-01 Thread Hanan Z. AL-Shargi
Thank you Michel, I downloaded star office in binary format from Sun's website, and as you said installing it was as easy as clicking on a .exe But since this was brought up, would any of the list gurus please kindly post a short list clearifying how do u know how to install the diffirent

RE: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-25 Thread Paul Kraus
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office staroffice is in the powerpack not the download, and the truth is you would rather run the newer openoffice downloads. :) hop out to openoffice.org is the place i do believe. On Thursday 24 January 2002 12:48, you spoke unto me thusly

Re: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-25 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: %_Someone posted earlier that star office was on the mdk8.1 cd's. Where is it located? I can't find it. On the three cd set it is on the commercial one. -- Gerald Waugh Registered Linux User 255245 register at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your

RE: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-25 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Star Office It is not on the d/l'd version only on the boxed sets cause it is proprietary. You can d/l openoffice.org though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Kraus Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 2:49 PM

RE: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-25 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: Is openoffice and staroffice the same thing? No it's not. OpenOffice is an opensource version of StarOffice, even though I believe that StarOffice is opensource too. Once apon a time StarOffice (Sun Miscrosystems I believe) released their code to

Re: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
Granted StarOffice 5.2 and OpenOffice are very different beasts as described, but StarOffice6.0 and OpenOffice are all but identical. I have them both loaded, and the only difference I can detect between them is the splash screen when they open. derek On Friday 25 January 2002 14:35, Ralph

Re: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-25 Thread Randy Kramer
Paul Kraus wrote: Is openoffice and staroffice the same thing? Almost. StarOffice was/is the Sun product, which became open sourced. When it became open sourced, certain features / programs incorporated in it could not be open sourced because they were proprietary to other companies.

Re: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-25 Thread tester
Paul Kraus wrote: Someone posted earlier that star office was on the mdk8.1 cd's. Where is it located? I can't find it. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Star Office

2002-01-24 Thread Paul Kraus
Someone posted earlier that star office was on the mdk8.1 cd's. Where is it located? I can't find it. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-24 Thread Scott Thurmond
I don't think it is on the 3 downloadable cds. I think it is in the box sets. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Kraus Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Star Office Someone posted

Re: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-24 Thread Lyndon Lininger Sr
Commercial disk 1 - Original Message - From: Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 2:48 PM Subject: [newbie] Star Office Someone posted earlier that star office was on the mdk8.1 cd's. Where is it located? I can't find it. Paul

Re: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-24 Thread shane
staroffice is in the powerpack not the download, and the truth is you would rather run the newer openoffice downloads. :) hop out to openoffice.org is the place i do believe. On Thursday 24 January 2002 12:48, you spoke unto me thusly: Someone posted earlier that star office was on the

Re: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-24 Thread Eric McClure
On Thursday 24 January 2002 15:48, you wrote: Commercial Applications CD 1 There is a web site that lists all the packages on the assorted cd's, but I need to search the newbie archives to find it. Hope this helps, eric Someone posted earlier that star office was on the mdk8.1 cd's. Where

Re: [newbie] Star Office

2002-01-24 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, shane wrote: staroffice is in the powerpack not the download, and the truth is you would rather run the newer openoffice downloads. :) hop out to openoffice.org is the place i do believe. http://sf1.mirror.openoffice.org/641c/install641C_linux_intel.tar.gz is the

[newbie] star office in spanish

2002-01-11 Thread Gerald Waugh
I installed star office and it is in spanish, only I don't speak spanish. Actually it installed during the LM 8.1 install. I hit setup in the menu and it came up in spanish. Can I fix it, or do I need an english version. -- Gerald -- Registered Linux User 255245 Register at

[newbie] Star office ?

2001-11-08 Thread Harry Ablejoy
Hi need a little help. Installed star office 6.0 but not anywhere on my desktop kde . I can't make it work at all any help please Thanks Harry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Star office ?

2001-11-08 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 21:09, Harry Ablejoy wrote: Hi need a little help. Installed star office 6.0 but not anywhere on my desktop kde . I can't make it work at all any help please Harry, If you did a default install of StarOffice 6.0, then it is installed into

Re: [newbie] STAR OFFICE FONTS - NOW: OPEN OFFICE - Any users?

2001-07-21 Thread John Rigby
Hi folks, Any brave ones using Open Office out there, yet? Which brings up a further point: Some of our Newbies on this list are really brave. What they are doing playing with advanced stuff when they are asking questions even *I* can answer...

Re: [newbie] STAR OFFICE FONTS

2001-07-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
- From: John Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] STAR OFFICE FONTS Hi there, If nobody here can fix it ( most things seem to be! ) send off a note to SO. If enough people NICELY complain

Re: [newbie] STAR OFFICE FONTS

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
John Rigby wrote: Hi there, If nobody here can fix it ( most things seem to be! ) send off a note to SO. If enough people NICELY complain, it will be fixed. The axle that squeaks gets the grease - THAT'S life! :-) On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:03, you manipulated electrons to produce:

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-05 Thread Romanator
Okay. That's what I did and I now have many more fonts to choose from. Thanks, Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility Mark Weaver wrote: No...Roman they are the fonts from the windows installation that lives on the disk/computer with mandrake. DrakeFonts

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-05 Thread Romanator
Hi Randy, I did it and I have many more choices when it comes to fonts. Thanks, Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility Randy Kramer wrote: Romanator wrote: Okay. But I have to figure how to import them into Linux. I use kde on Mandrake 7.2 with the

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-04 Thread Randy Kramer
Roman, You can take Windows fonts and use them in Linux. AFAIK, you can do so legally on a dual boot machine where you have Windows legally installed. I can't tell you the step-by-step of how to do it -- I think it's been mentioned in this thread or elsewhere on the list -- I've done this by

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-04 Thread Romanator
Hi Randy, Okay. But I have to figure how to import them into Linux. Roman Randy Kramer wrote: Roman, You can take Windows fonts and use them in Linux. AFAIK, you can do so legally on a dual boot machine where you have Windows legally installed. I can't tell you the step-by-step of

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-04 Thread Randy Kramer
Romanator wrote: Okay. But I have to figure how to import them into Linux. I use kde on Mandrake 7.2 with the MandrakeFreq from 20010315. Start drakfont (it should be on your menu -- in my case it it is under configuration - other - drakfont). You can do this from a user account -- it will

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-04 Thread Judith Miner
Roman wrote: if you find some sort of workaround, please let me know what steps you took to import them [Windows fonts] into your Linux box. I did this once, to my sorrow (will explain later). This Drakfont option assumes you have Windows on your hard drive and Linux can see it. When you start

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-03 Thread Romanator
Hi Ivan, To the best of my knowledge, you cannot copy Windows fonts from Windows to Linux. This is most likely why you got the error. When selecting Windows fonts by using Drakfont, click on the Windows fonts button and select the Force option. You want to uninstall the present fonts and

[newbie] Star Office in Mandrake 7.2

2001-07-01 Thread Lynn Sadler
Friends: I'm a new user of Linux and Mandrake. I've installed Mandrake 7.2 and quite pleased with it. However, I'm still quite confused about loading software other than rpms. I've got the rpms down fairly well since it seems to be a no-brainer how to install them. I've downloaded Star

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-06-26 Thread ivan miranda
Hi Romanator, I did download the new version of drakfont,however,i could not install any windows fonts (i have win2k on NTFS).How can i mount an NTFS partion ?.However i copied some fonts from widows m/c, all are *.ttf font,but while i was trying to install those fonts, drakfont gives

[newbie] Star office problem

2001-06-24 Thread ivan miranda
Hi all, I have installed a power pack version of LM8.Staroffice works fine,java okay,but the fonts...awafullhow can i correct this.Earlier,i have corrected the fonts problem in LM8 and the browsers,by removing the existing abisuite and installing a newer version.The second problem is

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-06-24 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 10:24:37 +0300 ivan miranda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have installed a power pack version of LM8.Staroffice works fine,java okay,but the fonts...awafullhow can i correct this.Earlier,i have corrected the fonts problem in LM8 and the browsers,by

[newbie] Star Office Can't Save

2001-05-25 Thread Neville Cobb
After Install of 8.0 I could not save a document to a vfat partition, neither could root. However I can write to it using the file manager. Any clues? Nev

Re: [newbie] Star Office Can't Save

2001-05-25 Thread Daniel Meier
Hi there, Neville Cobb wrote: After Install of 8.0 I could not save a document to a vfat partition, neither could root. However I can write to it using the file manager. I have the same problem and unfortunately have not found a solution yet. The permissions seem fine and all other

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows??????????? and comments about Linux practicality

2001-05-15 Thread tazmun
- From: Lee To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows??? Hi Taz, Wanna ask ya,if you don't mind, what would you reccomend instead of star office ? k-office perhaps ?? Just curious..and thank you. Lee star

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Jeffrey M. Reed
i'm glad this is a newbie list or i would have to FLAME you to death. heh heh. linux, is better in overall DESIGN than the Windows OS as far as memory management and less-likely-to-crash goes. support for linux? not so hot. quite simply, it's not a commercial product so it's not going to get

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Lee
Hi Taz, Wanna ask ya,if you don't mind, what would you reccomend instead of star office ? k-office perhaps ?? Just curious..and thank you. Lee star office? CRAP. quite simply. why are you using it? that's what you really need to think about man. it does SOME things really nice but other

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Michael D. Viron
You might want to try Open Office instead--supposed to be somewhat better performance than star office. Latest release is 6.27, I believe Michael At 01:09 PM 05/14/2001 -0700, Lee wrote: Hi Taz, Wanna ask ya,if you don't mind, what would you reccomend instead of star office ? k-office perhaps

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
Greetings, I am a StarOffice user. Once it starts up it is quite responsive. Moreover it has great M$ office import filters. It is also quite feature rich. If you bypass the plash screen at startup you save a couple of seconds. With KDE/GNOME you have several desktops. So, what I do is

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Lee
I've never heard of Open Office ? Will go in search however..thank you. Lee You might want to try Open Office instead--supposed to be somewhat better performance than star office. Latest release is 6.27, I believe At 01:09 PM 05/14/2001 -0700, Lee wrote: Hi Taz, Wanna ask ya,if you don't

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 14 May 2001 05:27, tazmun wrote: Hi all.just a quickie question that has been bugging me. I was under the impression that the Linux OS was a more efficient program then windowsbut the only 2 programs I have for true comparison since I run them on both OS's is Star Office

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Michael D. Viron
Take a look at http://www.openoffice.org At 04:37 PM 05/14/2001 -0700, Lee wrote: I've never heard of Open Office ? Will go in search however..thank you. Lee

[newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-13 Thread tazmun
Hi all.just a quickie question that has been bugging me. I was under the impression that the Linux OS was a more efficient program then windowsbut the only 2 programs I have for true comparison since I run them on both OS's is Star Office Netscape 4.7. The windows OS unfortunately

Re: [newbie] star office 5.2 errir opening configuration file

2001-04-20 Thread Eric
What kind of SO install did you do? Was it #./setup -net as root and then $./setup as normal user? On Thursday 19 April 2001 09:30, Alan Carpenter wrote: I am having a small problem with star office, and I was wondering if anyone could help me out. When I close star office I get this error

[newbie] star office 5.2 errir opening configuration file

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Carpenter
I am having a small problem with star office, and I was wondering if anyone could help me out. When I close star office I get this error message "error opening configuration file". When I'm logged in as root, and close up star office I do not get that error. I thought this could be a

Re: [newbie] star office 5.2 errir opening configuration file

2001-04-19 Thread Eric
What kind of SO install did you do? Was it #./setup -net as root and then $./setup as normal user? On Thursday 19 April 2001 09:30, Alan Carpenter wrote: I am having a small problem with star office, and I was wondering if anyone could help me out. When I close star office I get this error

Re: [newbie] star office 5.2 errir opening configuration file

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Carpenter
I was logged on as a normal user, and then I just ran the bin file. Alan Salvatore Eric Indiogine wrote: What kind of SO install did you do? Was it #./setup -net as root and then $./setup as normal user? On Thursday 19 April 2001 09:30, Alan Carpenter wrote: I am having a small problem

Re: [newbie] star office 5.2 errir opening configuration file

2001-04-19 Thread Alan Carpenter
I was logged on as a normal user, and then I just ran the bin file. Alan Salvatore Eric Indiogine wrote: What kind of SO install did you do? Was it #./setup -net as root and then $./setup as normal user? On Thursday 19 April 2001 09:30, Alan Carpenter wrote: I am having a small problem

Re: [newbie] star office 5.2 errir opening configuration file

2001-04-19 Thread Eric
What kind of SO install did you do? Was it #./setup -net as root and then $./setup as normal user? On Thursday 19 April 2001 09:30, Alan Carpenter wrote: I am having a small problem with star office, and I was wondering if anyone could help me out. When I close star office I get this error

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Java woes

2001-03-26 Thread Dale Kosan
Thanks for those who replied to my question, will try it when I get home this evening. Dale Kosan

[newbie] star office 5.2 - /tmp no space ???

2001-02-20 Thread Alan Carpenter
When I attempted to install star office, I get an error "no space in /tmp". It creates a directory under /tmp called "srv.0001". Does this simply mean I don't have enough space to install it?? I created the typical partitions. /,swap,var,usr,home and opt. What partition does the tmp directory

[newbie] Star Office

2001-02-14 Thread John W
Anyone know if the star office that is on the Mandrake 7.1 CD will work in 7.2? I'd rather not download SO if I don't have to. Thanks, -- John W

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