Re: [newbie] StarOffice setup

2003-01-25 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris wrote: | When installing Star Office 6.0 what is the preferred method, Workstation or | Local install? I remember this thread from quite aways back and searched the | archives but can't find the msg I'm looking for that explained the |

Re: [newbie] StarOffice Wrong Parameter?

2002-12-22 Thread Barry Premeaux
On Saturday 21 December 2002 06:00 pm, you wrote: Star Office 6.0 will let me create a documemt and print it -- but not save it. It tells me it has been started under a wrong parameter, and then closes abruptly. What am I doing wrong? TIA Bob I had the same problem when I did an

RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-18 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 22:13, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't like it with an urpmi command? Anyaway, is urpmi.removemedia safe in case I want to get rid of it? It will not remove dependencies used by my OpenOffice?

RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrei Raevsky Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread David Robertson
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:04, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, After an amazing 12-hours (!) download on my slow connection, I finally got my hands on the new StarOffice RPMs. I downloaded the following ones: 1) staroffice-common-6.0-5mdk.i586.rpm 2) staroffice-en-6.0-5mdk.i586.rpm 3)

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi David, Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't like it with an urpmi command? I want to try it out only because I have the opportunity, that's it. My silver membership was a way to say thanks to Mandrake for their fantastic work - not a way of getting

RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrei Raevsky Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread David Robertson
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:59, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi David, Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't like it with an urpmi command? I want to try it out only because I have the opportunity, that's it. My silver membership was a way to say thanks to Mandrake

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread Spencer Anderson
On 17 Dec 2002 23:16:53 + David Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:59, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi David, Thanks for the info, but can I also UNINSTALL StarOffice if I don't like it with an urpmi command? I want to try it out only because I have the

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open Office)

2002-12-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 01:19 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrei Raevsky Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] StarOffice install sequence (next to Open

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

2002-07-03 Thread Bob Read
Civileme, your instructions worked quite well and SO6 is behaving nicely on the installation I tried them on. MUCH THANKS! HOWEVER, uninstalling SO6 took gnome and a number of other things with it, Is there any way to uninstall the SO6 without losing so much else in the process? I still have

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

2002-07-02 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Read Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:24 PM To: Newbie Mandrake Subject: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

2002-07-02 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWOSent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:10 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

2002-07-02 Thread civileme
Bob Read wrote: I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2 twice, once leaving StarOffice 5.2 in place and once after uninstalling 5.2. In the first case, SO Writer would load and function for a while -- and suddenly disappear completely. I suspected 5.2 had caused a problem, and tried an upgrade

Re: [newbie] StarOffice

2002-05-30 Thread Terry Sheltra
Yas, You can go to http://www.sun.com/staroffice or you can visit http://www.openoffice.org and download OpenOffice 6.0 for free. From what I've seen and heard, OpenOffice is no different than StarOffice, just that it's free. HTH, Terry On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 08:41, MELEAN Yasmin wrote:

Re: [newbie] StarOffice

2002-05-30 Thread Raffaele Belardi
...but from the sun site you can only donwload version 5.2, and only till some time in the near future when they will remove it from the online site. 6.0 not for free, and thus cannot be downloaded from sun's (or any other ) site. staroffice 6.0 is based on openoffice 6.0, which is free.

Re: [newbie] StarOffice

2002-05-30 Thread Chris Spackman
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:01, Terry Sheltra wrote: and download OpenOffice 6.0 for free. From what I've seen and heard, OpenOffice is no different than StarOffice, just that it's free. There are some differences. Star Office contains some proprietary stuff like clip art, fonts, and some

Re: [newbie] StarOffice

2002-05-30 Thread D. Olson
On Thursday 30 May 2002 09:29 am, you wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:01, Terry Sheltra wrote: and download OpenOffice 6.0 for free. From what I've seen and heard, OpenOffice is no different than StarOffice, just that it's free. OpenOffice 6 is out? When did that happen? I just downloaded

Re: [newbie] StarOffice

2002-05-30 Thread shane
On Thursday 30 May 2002 08:23 am, D. Olson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: On Thursday 30 May 2002 09:29 am, you wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:01, Terry Sheltra wrote: and download OpenOffice 6.0 for free. From what I've seen and heard, OpenOffice is no different than

Re: [newbie] StarOffice

2002-05-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 30 May 2002 10:23 am, D. Olson wrote: On Thursday 30 May 2002 09:29 am, you wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:01, Terry Sheltra wrote: and download OpenOffice 6.0 for free. From what I've seen and heard, OpenOffice is no different than StarOffice, just that it's free.

Re: [newbie] StarOffice

2002-05-30 Thread D. Olson
Link? http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/OpenOffice.org-1.0-3mdk.i58 6.rpm and for better fonts on your 8.2 system, also get http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/freetype2-2.0.9-3plf.i586.r pm Openoffice uses almost entirely different code than SO 6, and many

RE: [newbie] StarOffice

2002-05-30 Thread Franki
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of D. Olson Sent: Friday, 31 May 2002 12:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice Link? http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/OpenOffice.org-1.0-3mdk.i58 6.rpm and for better fonts on your 8.2 system, also get http://ranger.dnsalias.com

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 21:21, Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am disheartened to see signatures such as yours. How typical of Linux

RE: Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptionsexplained

2002-05-03 Thread falcaraz
: Nick Andriash [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Viernes, Mayo 3, 2002 3:21 am Asunto: Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I am/was beginning

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Alastair Scott
On Friday 03 May 2002 2:21 am, Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am disheartened to see signatures such as yours. How typical of Linux

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Alastair Scott
On Friday 03 May 2002 4:42 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: I am using the OpenOffice version of StarOffice. I have not had any problems with it. I open Micorosoft documents (Word, Excell), edit them and save them in those formats without any problem. Seconded, and the round trip (Word 97 or 2000

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Barran, Richard
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 21:21, Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am disheartened to see signatures such as yours. How typical of

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread shane
On Thursday 02 May 2002 23:04, civileme opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: The signature implies to me that Microsoft is to blame for leading gullible people, but I never saw that the meaning everyone who uses windows is gullible could be read into it.

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Barran, Richard wrote: I HAVE to use Windows 8 hrs a day in the workplace - does that make me an idiot? I use Win98 at home - no Linux CD-burner comes close in quality to Nero Burning Rom. Does that make me an idiot? Signatures such as 'all Windows users are idiots' are

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Damian G
note, the sig below is in no way intended to poke fun at any 6 fingered ppl who can indeed carry out the command described, no similarity to any ppl living or dead is accidental. the name shane may not be mine. i may be spoofing. your milage may vary. do not taunt happy fun ball.

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On 4 May 2002, Brian Parish wrote: OK - This got a nice little flame war going, but didn't really address the question. Is anyone else using SO6 - not the other flavors - and seeing the same behavior as I am? A friend who just upgraded to 8.2 has SO6 crashing on every doc file he's tried

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread James Thomas
I actually have little against Windows - personally, I think XP is a fine OS (best Windows by far yet, IMO). Where I take exception is the company itself and its business practices. If my printer worked properly in Linux (for some reason it works right off the bat after I reboot or after I

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
of it if you're not printing. I hate to say it but if I don't have the luxury of time, it's Word for me. Jeanie -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 8:42 AM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Jose Paiva
PM Subject: Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained I actually have little against Windows - personally, I think XP is a fine OS (best Windows by far yet, IMO). Where I take exception is the company itself and its business practices. If my printer worked properly

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 03 May 2002 16:37:10 -0700, James Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps. I really need to switch email accounts (this is owned by Microsoft) but it's so hard to do - anyone know of any free mail forwarding site that acts as a sort of relay so if you change ISPs or email addresses, there

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Mike Larson
You might try www.hotpop.com for free pop/smtp/forwarding email or www.bigfoot.com for a free forwarding type email. I thought I had several others, but they started charging ( www.mail.com ) or dropped their Enlish language version ( www.gmx.com ). With today's dot bomb financial situation

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 03 May 2002 22:39:23 -0500, Mike Larson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might try www.hotpop.com for free pop/smtp/forwarding email or www.bigfoot.com for a free forwarding type email. I thought I had several others, but they started charging ( www.mail.com ) or dropped their Enlish

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-02 Thread Mike Larson
Hi Nick, I used Windows from 3.1 to 98. I now use Linux. I do not take offense to Shane's signature and I feel you are overreacting. Lighten up Linux is about having fun. Mike Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-02 Thread Nelson Bartley
I agree whole heartedly with you on this subject. The unfortunate part is that there appear to be no moderators on this list. I wish people would stop taking such a negative attitude to windows, we were all windows users at one point. NB On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 21:21, Nick Andriash wrote: On

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-02 Thread Damian G
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

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie
On Thursday 02 May 2002 07:21 pm, Nick Andriash offered this for consideration: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am disheartened to see signatures such as

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-02 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
On Thursday 02 May 2002 04:56 pm, Brian Parish 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

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-02 Thread civileme
Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am disheartened to see signatures such as yours. How typical of Linux Users... and almost enough to make me

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-27 Thread Damian
El mar, 26-03-2002 a las 08:48, ed tharp escribió: snip i don't think it is yet out from sun, so you won't find it. if you wish to join as a silver member at the mandrake users club you can get it and much more, but it will set you back $120 Really? I am a silver member, but when I

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 18:40, Damian wrote: El mar, 26-03-2002 a las 08:48, ed tharp escribió: snip i don't think it is yet out from sun, so you won't find it. if you wish to join as a silver member at the mandrake users club you can get it and much more, but it will set you

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-26 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 03:45, David wrote: So, whats the big difference in SO 5.2 and SO 6? I just downloaded 5.2 from the Sun site for free. 6.0 go trid of some of the (IMO) unnecessary features of 5.2, like the integrated desktop and browsing/e-mail capability. This, along with

Fwd: Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-26 Thread Lúcio Costa de Almeida
Thank you Civileme, I´ll looking for MKL8.2 Pack here in Brazil. But it's very dificult to find it. Beste Regards! Lúcio Costa. --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Data: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:50:21 -0900 De: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: Re: [newbie

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-26 Thread ed tharp
snip i don't think it is yet out from sun, so you won't find it. if you wish to join as a silver member at the mandrake users club you can get it and much more, but it will set you back $120 Really? I am a silver member, but when I joined I saw a thing that said the benifits were the same

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-26 Thread civileme
Michael Scottaline wrote: On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 15:47, Lúcio Costa de Almeida wrote: Hello All, Can Anyone help me ??? I'm looking for information about StarOffice 6.0 final version. Is this version avaliable to Download ? Do you have a link? == I don't believe it's

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-26 Thread Charles Muller
Really? I am a silver member, but when I joined I saw a thing that said the benifits were the same for all club members, reguardless of level of membershiip. has that changed? That was the impression I had. I felt justified paying the $60 at the beginning, being completely new to Linux, in

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-26 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:45:03 -0700 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, StarOffice 6.0 ready and downloadable from MandrakeClub _now_. Miark === Thanks for the heads-up 8^) Mike -- You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-26 Thread Brian Parish
Charles, When you do manage to get to the site you'll see an article about just that and yes, they have made it easy to upgrade apparently. Brian On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 00:24, Charles Muller wrote: Really? I am a silver member, but when I joined I saw a thing that said the benifits were

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-26 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 25 March 2002 03:47 pm, Lúcio Costa de Almeida wrote: Hello All, Can Anyone help me ??? I'm looking for information about StarOffice 6.0 final version. Is this version avaliable to Download ? Do you have a link? Tks Lucio. Lucio: The bad news is that Sun has withdrawn the

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-25 Thread shane
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 04:47 am, Lúcio Costa de Almeida opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: I'm looking for information about StarOffice 6.0 final version. opening that can-o-worms. i don't think it is yet out from sun, so you won't find it. if you wish to join as a silver

Fwd: Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 Ooops!

2002-03-25 Thread Charlie
I guess you need the link? http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-03-25-011-26-NW-DT-MD Sorry!!! _ On March 25, 2002 01:47 pm, Lucio spake thusly: Hello All, Can Anyone help me ??? I'm looking for information

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-25 Thread Brian Parish
Not released until May and it may not be free. Brian On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 07:47, Lúcio Costa de Almeida wrote: Hello All, Can Anyone help me ??? I'm looking for information about StarOffice 6.0 final version. Is this version avaliable to Download ? Do you have a link? Tks

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-25 Thread Charlie
On March 25, 2002 01:47 pm, Lucio spake thusly: Hello All, Can Anyone help me ??? I'm looking for information about StarOffice 6.0 final version. Is this version avaliable to Download ? Do you have a link? Tks Lucio __ I think you'll

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-25 Thread Miark
Mike, StarOffice 6.0 ready and downloadable from MandrakeClub _now_. Miark I don't believe it's quite ready yet. 6.0 beta is as rock solid a beta as I've ever come across though. I'd say late April early May and likely well worth the wait. IMHO, Mike Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-25 Thread David
shane said onto me: shane On Tuesday 26 March 2002 04:47 am, Lúcio Costa de Almeida opened a hailing shane frequency and transmitted: shane shane I'm looking for information about StarOffice 6.0 final shane version. shane shane opening that can-o-worms. shane shane i don't think it is

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2

2002-02-27 Thread Joan Tur
Es Domingo 24 Febrero 2002 22:41, Kaj Haulrich va escriure: Hi, I just installed StarOffice into my /usr/local directory. To do this, I needed to log on as root. The installation seemed to go fine, but when I went to run the program as a regular user, I

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2, OT ;p

2002-02-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
FemmeFatale wrote: Does this work in other wm's like E? and if not, how can i make links on a desktop in E? I've tried with no success as yet . TIA Femme Kaj Haulrich wrote: SNIP Now, having Star Office only makes sense if you run a graphical interface under the X server, for

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2

2002-02-25 Thread Chris Howe
star off ice needs to be installed for each individual user as far as i know but i'm not an expert by any means chris - Original Message - From: Pauljames Dimitriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 7:41 AM Subject: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2 Hi,

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2

2002-02-25 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 25 February 2002 20:13, you wrote: star off ice needs to be installed for each individual user as far as i know but i'm not an expert by any means chris - Original Message - From: Pauljames Dimitriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2

2002-02-24 Thread Bo Rosén
sön 2002-02-24 klockan 12.41 skrev Pauljames Dimitriu: The obvious question comes up: How do I set StarOffice to run for all users? If I remember correctly you have to run the installer with the -net option, then run it again (without the -net option) for each user. I.e each user has to

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2

2002-02-24 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Sunday 24 February 2002 06:41 am, Pauljames Dimitriu wrote: Hi, I just installed StarOffice into my /usr/local directory. To do this, I needed to log on as root. The installation seemed to go fine, but when I went to run the program as a regular user, I get the following error:

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2, OT ;p

2002-02-24 Thread FemmeFatale
Does this work in other wm's like E? and if not, how can i make links on a desktop in E? I've tried with no success as yet . TIA Femme Kaj Haulrich wrote: SNIP Now, having Star Office only makes sense if you run a graphical interface under the X server, for example KDE or Gnome. So it is

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 beta startup command

2002-02-18 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On 18 Feb 2002 18:31:58 +0900 Charles Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I've installed the StarOffice 6.0 beta, but am unable to locate the startup command. Does anyone know this? Chuck add the {OO.O PATH}/program to your path. then you could invoke the following

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 beta startup command

2002-02-18 Thread Brian Parish
It's soffice in whatever directory you chose as the root for StarOffice. On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 20:31, Charles Muller wrote: I've installed the StarOffice 6.0 beta, but am unable to locate the startup command. Does anyone know this? Chuck -- --- Charles Muller Toyo

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 beta startup command

2002-02-18 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Brian Parish wrote: It's soffice in whatever directory you chose as the root for StarOffice. On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 20:31, Charles Muller wrote: I've installed the StarOffice 6.0 beta, but am unable to locate the startup command. Does anyone know this? Chuck look for the executable

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2 panel freezes on load in KDE

2002-01-14 Thread Linus Drouhard
I can't remember how I cleared the message, but I do remember being extremely aggravated. I saw the message one time when I was shutting everthing down, the splash screen shutdown first then the message. I don't remember how I got to the message to clear it though. Sorry. Linus On Sunday

Re: [newbie] Staroffice 5.2 panel freezes on load

2002-01-14 Thread Andy Gay
I found the solution to this. I just ran /home/me/office52/setup The SO wizard came up and repaired the installation in a snap! Thanks for all the suggestions. Andy Gay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2 panel freezes on load in KDE

2002-01-13 Thread Andy Gay
So, if there is an error message behind the panel, how did you manage to access it and close it down? When I called up StarOffice 5.2 in KDE, it froze in the loading with the title panel, which I could not get rid of without logging out. I uninstallted SO5.2 and reinstalled it, but it is

Re: [newbie] StarOffice FYI

2001-12-18 Thread Miark
Actually with OpenOffice released under GPL, this might not be a bad idea. Ironicaly it could actually increase the corporate adoption of StarOffice. Why? Because there are still a lot of people who think that anything that is free can't be any good and if it's more expensive it must be

Re: [newbie] StarOffice FYI

2001-12-17 Thread Jim Dawson
On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 12:11, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Just picked this link up and knew it would be of interest. Sun Considers Charging for StarOffice http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D1884%2526a%253D19928,00.asp Actually with OpenOffice released under GPL, this might not

Re: [newbie] StarOffice FYI

2001-12-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 15 December 2001 12:11 pm, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Just picked this link up and knew it would be of interest. Sun Considers Charging for StarOffice http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D1884%2526a%253D19928,00.asp but there's http://www.openoffice.org/ --

Re: [newbie] staroffice 6 install

2001-12-05 Thread Brian Parish
OK - here's an answer to my own question. Sun have published checksums for all the files on the newsgroup for the beta program. Turns out that two of my files are bad even though the byte count is right, Downloading /Brian On Wednesday 05 December 2001 9:00 pm, you wrote: I know many

Re: [newbie] staroffice 6 install

2001-12-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Brian Parish wrote: I know many people on the list are using the staroffice beta, so I'll ask here because I haven't set up to participate in the news group specific to this. When I attempt to install, the directory into which it's writing grows to 2.2GB then it fails always on a file

Re: [newbie] staroffice 6 install

2001-12-05 Thread Lanman
Just a quik question, here. Why use StarOffice when Openoffice runs much better? They're from the same people, sort of, and Openoffice never gives me any problems. Am I missing something? Lanman On Wednesday 05 December 2001 08:40 am, you wrote: Brian Parish wrote: I know many people on

Re: [newbie] staroffice 6 install

2001-12-05 Thread Brian Parish
I think it's me that's missing something - I don't know about Openoffice. Is it M$ file compatible? /Brian On Thursday 06 December 2001 1:05 am, you wrote: Just a quik question, here. Why use StarOffice when Openoffice runs much better? They're from the same people, sort of, and Openoffice

Re: [newbie] staroffice 6 install

2001-12-05 Thread Lanman
Absolutley! It's actually StarOffice without the desktop, browser, or Email client. Which means it's a little faster, and a more conventional Office Suite. Even handles M$ Office XP stuff! Current release is 641b (not a beta version). Here's the link,... http://openoffice.org Lanman On

Re: [newbie] staroffice 6 install

2001-12-05 Thread Dave Sherman
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 09:20, Lanman wrote: Absolutley! It's actually StarOffice without the desktop, browser, or Email client. Which means it's a little faster, and a more conventional Office Suite. Even handles M$ Office XP stuff! Current release is 641b (not a beta version). Here's

Re: [newbie] staroffice 6 install

2001-12-05 Thread Lanman
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 10:34 am, you wrote: On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 09:20, Lanman wrote: Absolutley! It's actually StarOffice without the desktop, browser, or Email client. Which means it's a little faster, and a more conventional Office Suite. Even handles M$ Office XP stuff!

RE: [newbie] staroffice 6 install

2001-12-05 Thread Franki
staroffice.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2001 11:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] staroffice 6 install On Wednesday 05 December 2001 10:34 am, you wrote: On Wed, 2001-12-05

Re: [newbie] staroffice 6 install

2001-12-05 Thread Brian Parish
Just to rule a line under this - I have now successfully installed. The problem was a couple of corrupt downloads. Sun have published checksums for them on the news group for staroffice 6 beta, so I recommend that anyone installing checks them after downloading. It seems that corruption -

Re: [newbie] StarOffice install problem

2001-12-04 Thread Brian Parish
Thanks John, but yes, they were already executable. I played some more and made it work by moving the installation files to another directory. Not sure what difference this made yet, unless the fact that the directory I was trying to install in originally was in an exported tree caused the

Re: [newbie] staroffice print

2001-09-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:43:58 +0200, belcoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I make staroffice print? I downloaded staroffice, it installed fine, but how can I make it print? Run spadmin (in the program dir where you installed SO) as root. Set the printer driver to plain PostScript, and set

Re: [newbie] staroffice print

2001-09-21 Thread Linus Drouhard
On Friday 21 September 2001 10:47, Ric Tibbetts wrote: belcoop wrote: How can I make staroffice print? I downloaded staroffice, it installed fine, but how can I make it print? run spadmin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Staroffice 5.2 and M8

2001-09-20 Thread Mohammed Arafa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 3:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Staroffice 5.2 and M8 On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:15:11 +, Stewart Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have a problem that is driving me mad.I tried installing

Re: [newbie] Staroffice 5.2 and M8

2001-09-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Netscape turns Mozilla into Netscape 6). A StarOffice 6 beta is due out next month. enjoy - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 3:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Staroffice 5.2

Re: [newbie] Staroffice 5.2 and M8

2001-09-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:15:11 +, Stewart Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have a problem that is driving me mad.I tried installing StarOffice 5.2 whilst logged in as root. It works fine when logged in as root but will not work from my user session. I tried altering the

Re: [newbie] StarOffice can't find sofficerc

2001-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Ben Bayer wrote: Hi all, I recently reinstalled Mandrake 8 on an old computer. After installing staroffice in the user home directory, I ran staroffice, but instead of starting it ran a repair program, telling me I needed sofficerc in ~/office52/user/sofficerc. Well, sofficerc is

Re: [newbie] StarOffice Word 97/2000 format

2001-08-19 Thread Liam O'Connell
Paul wrote: Are you perhaps trying to save to a Windoze partition where regular users have no write permission? I've had SO hang when writing to a FAT32 partition where there _is_ write permission, but is kills itself over the fact that the permissions (obviously) can't be changed...I think

Re: [newbie] StarOffice Word 97/2000 format

2001-08-18 Thread Admin
for some reason...you might have installed it wrong perhaps I would fully un-install it(star office)...and then re-install. and unless...you wish to allow each single account on your machine to use the one install, then I would install it ONLY in your \home\username directory...not in root.

Re: [newbie] StarOffice Word 97/2000 format

2001-08-18 Thread Paul
Are you perhaps trying to save to a Windoze partition where regular users have no write permission? Paul -- Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity. -Ebner-Eschenbach http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.3 **

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.1 not working with LM8

2001-08-08 Thread Phil
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 14:24 pm, you wrote: The latest version of StarOffice is 5.2. You can download it for free from www.sun.com That version also comes with the latest powerpack edition. Unfortunately I've had no luck at all installing Star Office on my system. Something in the Start

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.1 not working with LM8

2001-08-07 Thread s
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 03:09 pm, you wrote: Hi fter installing of StarOffice 5.1 with LM8 it ask to restart KDE to finish the installation I' restart the system But I' did not found any link to Office but I' found directory for office51 on my hard disk On Tuesday 07 August 2001

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.1 not working with LM8

2001-08-06 Thread etharp
On Monday 06 August 2001 20:25, Ebrahim Elmahdy wrote: Hi after installing of StarOffice 5.1 with LM8 it ask to restart KDE to finish the installation But that it not working ___ Thank you Ebrahim Elmahdy You are most welcome. Want to try your question again?

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Thread Jay DeKing
On Tue, 03 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: Jay DeKing wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 05:42 pm, RobertLuzader wrote: Perhaps someone can give a newbie some advice. I recently purchased Mandrake 8.0 and so far I'm pretty satisfied. Having worked in

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Thread Jay DeKing
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, Jay DeKing wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: Jay DeKing wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 05:42 pm, RobertLuzader wrote: Perhaps someone can give a newbie some advice. I recently purchased Mandrake 8.0 and so

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Thread Jay DeKing
I have a USB printer. No TV card, no network card. The only ISA card I have is my modem (only one ISA slot, the rest are PCI and AGP). The USB is integrated into the mobo. When the problem first manifested itself, I had the printer attached to the parallel port and nothing was using the USB

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