On Wednesday 12 October 2005 07:39 pm, Michael Morin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am new to this list and may not have the protocol quite right yet.
> Seems there is a different approach to the varied lists i belong too.
> In short, I am a retired unix guy who has over 20 yrs on GIS and
> Oracle. So being retired I am curious as to all ther 'freeware' I
> can get my hands on and frankly am tired of the Windows world...it is
> boring and requires alot of care....having said that the apps its
> supports is unquestionably daunting...so i have to live there as
> well.
>
> I recently downloaded the Open Office 2.x that supports the 'BASE'
> module which is appealing to a guy who works on databases...soooo I
> gave it a try and it crashed the app everytime i started to use
> BASE..'Reports'...seems the FORM portion of this app works fine.
> During the import of ASCII Delimited data it puked and the 'colums'
> were describe in some foreign language and the 'row' information was
> foreign as well. One person suggested it was the version of Java
> that I have on my laptop...which is a good place to start, but I've
> gotton no response from anyone else on this list just a bunch of
> deleted and non-read replys...................SO does anyone have a
> clue or a direction you could point me to see what the problem mght
> be?...I am asking before I check out the java suggestion?
>
> I thank all of you in advance.
>
> Regards,
Java 5.0 (1.5.x) does not seem to work well with OOo's Base. Java
1.4.2 does not seem to cause the crashes that 1.5.x does.
Dan
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