Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-20 Thread James Knott
Yep, I certainly wrote a lot of stuff just to get that Imsai going to. A lot of it I had to assemble by hand, as I didn't have the assembler up running yet. Backthen, we knew our computers inside out! Ah... Those were the days! ;-) noranross wrote: Hi all First personl computer was one

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
Drew, I finally decided to install the new version on the present system. Downloaded the tar file with the .deb's in it and unpacked them. Then removed all of the OpenOffice bits currently installed. Then I entered: apt-get install *.deb in the DEBS subdirectory. Got the usual stuff about

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
Sorry for the previous msg. It was meant for Drew Johnson off list. Bill -- +---+ | Bill Purvis, Amateur Mathematician| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://bil.members.beeb.net | +---+

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Drew Jensen
bill purvis wrote: Sorry for the previous msg. It was meant for Drew Johnson off list. Bill Actually, I am guessing you mean Drew Jensen...and I would just as soon try to answer on list or at http://user.services.openoffice.org That way other people can either help also, or receive help

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Drew Jensen
bill purvis wrote: Drew, I finally decided to install the new version on the present system. Downloaded the tar file with the .deb's in it and unpacked them. Then removed all of the OpenOffice bits currently installed. Then I entered: apt-get install *.deb in the DEBS subdirectory. Got the

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread LISBET HOGLAND
I dont anythin about open office - Original Message - From: bill purvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base) Drew, I finally decided to install the new version on the

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread LISBET HOGLAND
I dont not of open office - Original Message - From: Drew Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base) bill purvis wrote: Sorry for the previous msg. It was meant for Drew

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Monday November 19 2007 08:37 am, bill purvis wrote: Drew, I finally decided to install the new version on the present system. Downloaded the tar file with the .deb's in it and unpacked them. Then removed all of the OpenOffice bits currently installed. Then I entered: apt-get install

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
On Monday 19 November 2007, Drew Jensen wrote: bill purvis wrote: Drew, I finally decided to install the new version on the present system. Downloaded the tar file with the .deb's in it and unpacked them. Then removed all of the OpenOffice bits currently installed. Then I entered:

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
On Monday 19 November 2007, Dan Lewis wrote: On Monday November 19 2007 08:37 am, bill purvis wrote: Drew, I finally decided to install the new version on the present system. Downloaded the tar file with the .deb's in it and unpacked them. Then removed all of the OpenOffice bits currently

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
OK, I now have OpenOffice 2.3 installed. It opens existing files up but cannot find the 'mysql-java' JDBC Driver. I have tried uninstalling mysql-java and re-installing it, but no joy. It simply comes up with 'unable to connect to database MSS' and reporting that the class 'com/mysql/jdbc/Driver'

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 19/11/2007 19:33, bill purvis wrote: OK, I now have OpenOffice 2.3 installed. It opens existing files up but cannot find the 'mysql-java' JDBC Driver. I have tried uninstalling mysql-java and re-installing it, but no joy. It simply comes up with 'unable to connect to database MSS' and

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Drew Jensen
bill purvis wrote: OK, I now have OpenOffice 2.3 installed. It opens existing files up but cannot find the 'mysql-java' JDBC Driver. I have tried uninstalling mysql-java and re-installing it, but no joy. It simply comes up with 'unable to connect to database MSS' and reporting that the class

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Scott Castaline
bill purvis wrote: On Monday 19 November 2007, Dan Lewis wrote: On Monday November 19 2007 08:37 am, bill purvis wrote: Drew, I finally decided to install the new version on the present system. Downloaded the tar file with the .deb's in it and unpacked them. Then removed all of the

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
On Monday 19 November 2007, Drew Jensen wrote: bill purvis wrote: OK, I now have OpenOffice 2.3 installed. It opens existing files up but cannot find the 'mysql-java' JDBC Driver. I have tried uninstalling mysql-java and re-installing it, but no joy. It simply comes up with 'unable to

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread bill purvis
On Monday 19 November 2007, Scott Castaline wrote: bill purvis wrote: Dan, see my latest reponse to Drew. I'm very much a novice at Ubuntu/Debian and my experience is still limited (but still willing to learn). I was brought up on RedHat! (Not actually true - I was brought up on paper

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread noranross
hi all it seems there are a few of us here who started in the old paper tape and punch card days of very early machines.Mine were Honeywell. Ross bill purvis wrote: On Monday 19 November 2007, Scott Castaline wrote: bill purvis wrote: Dan, see my latest reponse to Drew. I'm very much

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Scott Castaline
bill purvis wrote: On Monday 19 November 2007, Scott Castaline wrote: bill purvis wrote: Dan, see my latest reponse to Drew. I'm very much a novice at Ubuntu/Debian and my experience is still limited (but still willing to learn). I was brought up on RedHat! (Not actually true - I was

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread James Knott
Scott Castaline wrote: Oh man you really do go back!!! In school we had access to a working PDP-8 and used , I can't remember the name of the system but it was an 1100 whatever mfg micro system that stored the code on 8" floppy to boot the PDP-8. I seem to remember we had written code to

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread James Knott
bill purvis wrote: On Monday 19 November 2007, Scott Castaline wrote: bill purvis wrote: Dan, see my latest reponse to Drew. I'm very much a novice at Ubuntu/Debian and my experience is still limited (but still willing to learn). I was brought up on RedHat! (Not

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread James Knott
noranross wrote: hi all it seems there are a few of us here who started in the old paper tape and punch card days of very early machines.Mine were Honeywell. I worked on many different systems, but my first personal computer was an Imsai 8080, which I bought 31 years ago. --

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Scott Castaline
James Knott wrote: Scott Castaline wrote: Oh man you really do go back!!! In school we had access to a working PDP-8 and used , I can't remember the name of the system but it was an 1100 whatever mfg micro system that stored the code on 8 floppy to boot the PDP-8. I seem to remember we had

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 20/11/2007, Scott Castaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Knott wrote: Scott Castaline wrote: Oh man you really do go back!!! In school we had access to a working PDP-8 and used , I can't remember the name of the system but it was an 1100 whatever mfg micro system that stored the

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-19 Thread noranross
Hi all First personl computer was one i built myself using a cmos chip the 6102. i built 1 k of memory using 2102's *8 . Burnt my own 1702 from a burner built by me as the bootstrap. It was amazing what we could fit into 1k of memory, including an assembler apart from the keyboard and video

[users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-15 Thread bill purvis
I've played around some more with queries, trying to get it to sort on the second field before the first. By turning off the sort, then clicking on the 'visible' box it turns off, then you can turn the sort back on. However, once you try to run it the 'visible' checkbox turns on again. Since I

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-15 Thread Drew Jensen
bill purvis wrote: I can't believe that this problem hasn't been spotted before Bill Hi again, Spotted and fixed in newer releases of the application. Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-15 Thread bill purvis
On Thursday 15 November 2007, Drew Jensen wrote: bill purvis wrote: I can't believe that this problem hasn't been spotted before Bill Hi again, Spotted and fixed in newer releases of the application. Drew OK, seems like I'll have to wait until Ubuntu catches up. Bill --

Re: [users] Sorting in queries (was new user of OOo:Base)

2007-11-15 Thread Drew Jensen
bill purvis wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2007, Drew Jensen wrote: bill purvis wrote: I can't believe that this problem hasn't been spotted before Bill Hi again, Spotted and fixed in newer releases of the application. Drew OK, seems like I'll have to wait until Ubuntu