Dear friends:
First, my thanks to everyone on the list who was so kind to offer
suggestions and advice. Putting all the pieces together, I have finally
been able to solve the major problem, namely, that of saving. SO now
saves perfectly. SO will not save across directories (same permissions
error messsage), but that makes sense since I installed it as a user.
And that doesn't bother me in the list since I always save my documents
in my home docs directory anyway.The remaining problem is that of
backup. No more backup error messages, but I still can't backup a
document even though I checked "Always create backup" in Options,
General, Save.
What was the problem?
Thanks to the reassurance by list members that I could indeed save
across drives and directories and specific hints about permissions
during install, I finally figured out the problem. The original so51a
binary was root rather than user. How? Because I originally copied it
after download to my /bs/ storage directory and when I copied it back to
my /home directory after my new install of Mandrake, I did not change
the binary to "user" (by using chown). If you try to copy a file from
one directory to another using su -, the file becomes root even if it
originally was user. I just tried it again to test it. That has to be it
because I just changed the binary to user and the resulting Install
files (in so51inst) after untarring were all given a peculiar number
(rather than being root). So, although Office 51 was all "sher" (because
SO installed it in /home/sher/Office51), there were permission problems
that prevented me from saving. This also explains why my installation of
SO as a network, then again installing it as a user, didn't solve the
problem. Apparently, the fact that the original binary was still root
must have had everything to do with it.
This time I first chown -R sher: sher * in my entire /home/sher
directory, which includes SO and its 70 meg installation binary:
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 sher]$ cd SO
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 SO]$ ls
so51a_lnx_01.tar so51inst
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 SO]$ ls -la
total 69020
drwxr-xr-x 3 sher sher 1024 Nov 29 20:55 .
drwxr-x--- 29 sher sher 2048 Nov 29 21:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 sher sher 70393856 Nov 25 19:10 so51a_lnx_01.tar
drwxr-sr-x 4 4534 310 1024 Aug 24 07:07 so51inst
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 SO]$
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 so51inst]$ ls -la
total 11
drwxr-sr-x 4 4534 310 1024 Aug 24 07:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 sher sher 1024 Nov 29 20:55 ..
drwxr-sr-x 2 4534 310 1024 May 11 1999 documentation
drwxr-xr-x 2 4780 310 8192 Aug 24 06:44 office51
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 so51inst]$
-rw-r--r-- 1 4780 310 681 Aug 24 05:44 f_98_1
-rw-r--r-- 1 4780 310 81867 Aug 20 03:25 f_99_1
-rw-r--r-- 1 4780 310 1279166 Aug 23 06:52 f_9_1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 4780 310 86960 Aug 11 06:49 setup
-rw-r--r-- 1 4780 310 275547 Aug 24 06:40 setup.ins
-rw-r--r-- 1 4780 310 7040582 Aug 24 06:44 setup.zip
[sher@adsl-77-232-182
office51]$
The permissions number, etc, was arbitrarily assigned by Staroffice
itself.
Now I went into StarOffice, typed a few lines and saved. Bingo! No
problem. Did it several times both in the default save
directory and in my own /home/sher/docs directory:
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 sher]$ ls
Desktop Office51 install.bin nsmail tik
LM SO mozilla prophet.txt tik-0.74.tar.gz
Mail docs netomat runnetomat wp80
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 sher]$
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 docs]$ ls
aid.sdw data general marshak reviews temp yale
anna dostov inferno natasha rus vaginov
ascii extra inv old russmark way.sdw
benjamin faina ladycat others scholar websher
blind.sdw fiction let-in pdf shklov~1 wentzell
commerce freeware let-out plays svezho wizard
country.sdw friends linux poetry tech yahoo-edu.doc
[sher@adsl-77-232-182 docs]$
Please note the three .sdw files above: aid.sdw, blind.sdw and
country.sdw.
So now the SO binary, the Office51 directory and the docs directory are
all in my /home/sher directory/partition, which is the way I wanted it.
My one last problem is that of backing up my saved document. Would
appreciate any ideas on why I can not backup my files automatically when
I have clearly checked the "Always create backup" in Options.
Thanks so much to everyone for your help.
Benjamin
--
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
