On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > just as a follow up note here. don't even bother with the patch from > stardivision, it's a waste of time (imho of course). star office still > crashes and behaves erratically even with the patch, and if the problems > are as bad as mine were (the install crashed on the welcome screen) you > can't even apply the patch because the patch has to be applied *after* the > installation. neat eh? > > just change to the svga server. as best as i can tell it makes no > difference and seems more stable (thought that's gut rather then hard > fact).
Well, the patch seems to work for me. StarOffice 5.0 Has not crashed on me yet. > i'm still not that happy with so5 and am going to install wp8 tomorrow and > see which i like better. all i really want is the ability to read word > and excell 97 files and i can do without excel if i have to. I have tried Wordperfect 8 for Linux and it can read/save word97 files but connot read/write excel97 formats. Fortunately, SO5 can read do the above. regards, = ===== Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated = = == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 = == = = = = E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==== = WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
