staroffice 4.0b2 working, sort of
This version was *a lot* easier to install. download it, move it to a user
directory, untar it (for some silly reason, it's jsut a tar rather than .tgz),
and it creates a directory. Then run the setup in this directory, but from
your home directory, and it creates an Office40 directory. then just
~/Office40/bin/soffice, and you're off & running.
But it's as annoying as microsoft stuff to use. Only one main window, and
everything else opens within this. ugh. You can't see the help pages (pain
in the *** to access/maneuver) and your document at the same time unless you
launch a second instance. subwindows are limited to the boundries of the
original. any attempt to search causes a segfault--but it does create correct
rescue files.
A lot more hassle than lyx, but i need formletters for the job hunt. It's this
or the 25mhz mac with a printer that no longer feeds properly.
And it apparently trades files with msoft just fine. It kept all formattting
information from a mac word 5.0 file saved as rtf.
Now if someone who understands such things would make an installer . . . :) I
tried installing it as root in a couple of places, but it doesn't work right;
it crashes when it doesn't find some files. But I'm the only one using this
machine, so it will work for a while . . .
rick
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