Unix doesn't care what extension you've got.
You have to modify the executable bit.

You can do a:   chmod 755 file
That will make file executable by the owner and other people.
Do that with your staroffice download and do the ./file thing under a terminal in 
X-Windows.

>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >         How do you execute / extract a bin extension in linux (redhat) ?  I got 
star office 5.2 in bin format...
>> >
>> > jackson

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