On November 19, 2002 01:47 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote
Before anyone makes wild assumptions about what Mandrake did or did not do, 
please ensure that you have the appropriate OO help rpm installed, such as;

file:/Cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.0.1-9mdk.i586.rpm

All spellchecking is enabled with installation of this rpm. Please ensure that 
myspell is also installed. For some reason, these are not installed 
automatically when OO is originally installed. I included this rpm when I did 
the first install and spellchecking has worked properly since.

Spence

> Hi There,
>
>       I can't be 100% certain about this.
>
>       I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they
> do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a
> genuine mistake.  If they did it on purpose, they would most likely try and
> push the fix to the solution as StarOffice (hence the powerpack statement)
> or possibly even the Mandrake Club.  If true, it smells of a Microsoft
> tactic.  Disable an important feature in a cheaper program, and push the
> solution as the more expensive option.
>
>       It could also be a mistake, no bodies perfect.  In my experiences
> with Mandrake9.0, there are a lot of bugs that keep me from completely
> dropping windows.  This problem is pretty big for a lot of people, and I am
> sure that if Mandrake didn't ship StarOffice as well, OpenOffice would have
> been working correctly.
>
>       Any comments?
>
> Craig
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2002 10:28 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.
>
>
> Craig, you can't be serious.
>
> Miark
>
> > Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem.  Just off
> > topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put
> > you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack).


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