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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
staroffice..
rgds
Frank
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On Wednesday 05 December 2001 10:34 am, you wrote:
On Wed, 2001-12-05
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 -
