Re: Staroffice on Debian Potato

2000-09-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:27:09AM -0400, David Teague wrote: > Hi Rino > > RIGHT. My coauthor and I have had pure hell because the latest > Mac MS Word doesn't translate Word from Office 97 .doc files with > tracked changes correctly. > > With MS it is not just non-interoperabilty with other op

Re: Staroffice on Debian Potato

2000-09-17 Thread David Teague
Hi Rino RIGHT. My coauthor and I have had pure hell because the latest Mac MS Word doesn't translate Word from Office 97 .doc files with tracked changes correctly. With MS it is not just non-interoperabilty with other operating systems, they don't even work well with themselves. --David On Sun

Re: Staroffice on Debian Potato

2000-09-17 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:50:24PM +0200 or thereabouts, I. Tura wrote: > It can happen that the guilty one is M$ Word. I've heard from a reliable > person that even Word 97 can convert in a bad manner another Word document > from another Word 97 program. your hearing is fine. even a WinCE

RE: Staroffice on Debian Potato

2000-09-16 Thread I. Tura
At 09.22 15/9/00 +0800, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] ha escrit: >Yup...installed 5.2 over the weekend.so far no problemshowever, the >Starwriter files saved as Word 5, Word 9X and Word 2000 was not >compatible..i.e. when I tried opening these files in Word 97, it said >something about file pe

Re: Staroffice on Debian Potato

2000-09-15 Thread David Teague
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using Star office 5.2 inside potato and have had no > difficulty with Word95, word97 or word2000 files. That is, I can either > read foreign files or write my own and have them read by M$. Even forms, > finally, work reasona

Re: Staroffice on Debian Potato

2000-09-15 Thread Art Edwards
I have been using Star office 5.2 inside potato and have had no difficulty with Word95, word97 or word2000 files. That is, I can either read foreign files or write my own and have them read by M$. Even forms, finally, work reasonably well. You do have to turn off the design mode. Finally, Powerpoin

RE: Staroffice on Debian Potato

2000-09-14 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Yup...installed 5.2 over the weekend.so far no problemshowever, the Starwriter files saved as Word 5, Word 9X and Word 2000 was not compatible..i.e. when I tried opening these files in Word 97, it said something about file permissions.in Windoze 95!!! I hope the Sun and Gnome folks imp

Re: Staroffice on Debian Potato

2000-09-14 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I only had a good experience when I installed it (ver 5.0a, 5.1, 5.2). Never had any problems. But personally, I don't like it. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: "Andreas Palsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:41 PM Subject

RE: Staroffice on Debian Potato

2000-09-14 Thread Federico Silva
Hi, Not at all. :) -f. > -Original Message- > From: Andreas Palsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: jueves 14 de septiembre de 2000 15:41 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Staroffice on Debian Potato > > > > Anyone have experiences on installing StarOffice on Deb