Re: Staroffice
> 1) I'm really only interested in pieces of the package, Star Writer, for
> example. Do you have to install the full package or can you install just the
> parts you want?
It's a single program; there aren't packages. And it has it's own
yuckky windows-like "desktop", and is confined to a single windows.
Overall, they've done a pretty good job of mimicking the lousy msoft
interface :)
> 2) If you can just install what you need, can you also download just what you
> need? Or do you have to get the full 70M and extract the good stuff?
If you can figure out how to chop up the executables :)
> 3) Does it really require 32M of RAM?
No. 64M is barely adequate :)
>What to you think about running it on my home box, a 486/75 with 24M of RAM?
it takes the better part of a minute (i think' it's long enough that i
find something else to do) just to load on a K6/200 w. 64M. It's not
a really bad slug after you load, just a mild one.
> 4) Does Star Writer handle Word Perfect (6.0a) documents?
Supposedly. But so does WP8 :) The only use I have for starwriter now
is that I haven't customized the styles for my resume in lyx yet. Once
I do, i won't have much use for staroffice.
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