On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Sher wrote:
>
> > Well, it didn't do the trick. Tried to save a new
> > document and got the same error message about permissions. So far, no
> > luck.
>
> Ideas:
>
> 1. StarOffice just will not navigate past any mount points it encounters.
> [that alone is enough to get it my royal trash can award]
>
Wrong. I use it across drives all the time. No problems
there...
>
> 2. StarOffice seems to require all the
> documents, etc that it deals with to be located in its
> own local working area. [that also is enough to get it
> my royal trash can award]
>
That's what it PREFERS, but it's not required. You can
access or save to ANY directory anywhere you have
permission. Theoretically, if you have a drive mounted on a
remote computer you could save to that drive.
>
> 3. Even though StarOffice seems to be
> KDE-aware, it really isn't. [that also is enough to
> get it my royal trash can award]
>
How do you mean? I realize it has it's own "desktop" but I
never really use that... I just open and close Star Office
as needed to use the apps there.
John
