On Monday 26 December 2005 08:11, you wrote: > Does OpenOffice have an Access replacement that can read/write M$ access > files that can use VBA? I'm guessing not ready for prime time just yet and > until *nix get's one (with that cute little VBA debugger), then the rest of > us non-server-development-types will be stuck with our less savy co-workers > that use Excel and Word for *ALL* their computing needs. It's no good to be > the leader if nobody's willing to follow... > > If you can figure out how to get Office XP working with FreeBSD 6.0, please > let me know.
sorry, i don't know much about office in Wine. Wish you can get it work :) anybody else knows about it? > > On Sunday 25 December 2005 22:48, you wrote: > > Merry Christmas! > > > > Although winehq.com is not altogether clear about it I get the impression > > from other sites that wine should be able to handle office 2000 without > > any > > problems. Some claim they have office XP and even office 2003 running on > > FreeBSD (http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~plug/mail_archive/0512/0046.html). I > > gave it a try with FreeBSD 6, Wine 0.9.4 and Office 2000 sp3 - > > unfortunately it would not even install properly. With wine in the win98 > > mode the installation gets stuck in 0% cpu activity, in the winXP mode it > > gets stuck in 100% cpu activity. Wine also does not allow me to do a > > 'custom' installation. A tree-structure with all the office items is > > shown, > > but it is not possible to check or uncheck any of those. As a consequence > > the whole suite is installed, including the 'forbidden' assistant. In > > win98 > > mode I have been able to get Word to open a file, more or less, and then > > had to kill wine to close the program. > > > > Is it actually possible to run office 2000 on FreeBSD? If so, I would > > appreciate some tips or hints. > > why not try openoffice? just a work around :) -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
