Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Compatibility of LO Base with Access databases

2016-08-05 Thread Girvin Herr
dBase files are plain text, but they have a specific format, which varies with version (feature add-ins). I did some research on the file format when I was trying to decide how I wanted to approach resurrecting my files. Another option is to use the old dBase 1.x under dosemu under Linux.

[libreoffice-users] language packs in Snap, Flatpak + related questions

2016-08-05 Thread Edmund Laugasson
Dear all, Does anybody know whether there would be possible to install language packs (possibly also other components in LibreOffice) in case of container format (Snap, Flatpak)? Similar question also here

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Compatibility of LO Base with Access databases

2016-08-05 Thread Walther Koehler
My doctors office uses a dBase based system for administration, keeping patient records and so on. It has integrated LO for many purposes, i.e. medical letters. As I was told, reading those dbf files using scripts is easy (dbf_dump), modifying dbf files from outside the program however tedious,

[libreoffice-users] Re: Compatibility of LO Base with Access databases

2016-08-05 Thread Ken Springer
On 8/4/16 3:56 PM, Girvin Herr wrote: On 08/04/2016 09:16 AM, toki wrote: On 02/08/2016 16:39, Ken Springer wrote: Now that you mentioned dBase, you may, or may not, be aware that LO has a dBase option. But a limitation to it that I found is that older I didn't know this, but must admit

[libreoffice-users] Re: style panel on the right "crashes"

2016-08-05 Thread CVAlkan
Hi Thomas: What version of LO are you using? I also had the problem you were referring to (I'm running Linux), but it was fixed in Version: 5.1.3.2, as I reported when filing Bug 99829 (https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99829). As usual, that "fix" also introduced another bug,

[libreoffice-users] Re: language packs in Snap, Flatpak + related questions

2016-08-05 Thread Edmund Laugasson
...continues... > But after installing also Flatpak version, the Snap version won't run > and error message: > failed to create user data directory. errmsg: Permission denied Looks like Flatpak has no influence there but Snappy bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1592696

[libreoffice-users] Re: style panel on the right "crashes"

2016-08-05 Thread Helmut Leininger
It qorks ok for me (cannot reproduce the problem) with LO 5.2.0.4 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bit Helmut Am 04.08.2016 um 14:56 schrieb Thomas Blasejewicz: > Good evening > I just discovered something. Since I never did this before, I do not > know, whether the problem is old or new. > > 1) Open