Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, B Sher wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, none has yet really figured it out.
>
> Room for doubt on that one!
>
> > There is one variable that has changed in this picture: In this last
> > installation of Mandrake 6.1 from my PowerPack CD, I added a separate
> > /home partition and installed StarOffice in /home/sher. This is where I
> > installed it before, too, but this time /home is a separate partition,
> > while before it was part of the single / partition that Linux was
> > installed into.
>
> I told you did I not, that StarOffice 5.1 will not navigate over mount
> points. This would indicate that SO is not using the standard file system
> commands. [which should be warning enough to stay away]
>
> It also indicates that it was never tested by StarDivision or Sun
> Microsystems on an installation which is spread over many partitions.
> [as is recommended by many Linux devotees]
Having just tested my 5.1a installation, I think you might be
overstating the problem.
I opened my copy of StarOffice, started a new text document, clicked
File, Save As... then navigated to a directory that is mounted
(/mnt/backup, an 8G partition on another drive), entered a filename and
saved the document. No errors were reported and the file exists in the
specified location.
Now, if you want to limit that statement to NFS mounts, that might be
something. But please, stick to the facts.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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