From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 14:12:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF04F37B41B for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:12:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (pgh.nepinc.com [192.204.162.27]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.11.6/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0AMLnE03763; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:21:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Message-Id: <200201102221.g0AMLnE03763@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jim Durham To: Kris Kennaway , Laurence Sanford Subject: Re: FreeBSD native Office software? Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:11:55 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020110084328.22acd600.lauasanf@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> <20020110111931.D8887@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020110111931.D8887@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 10 January 2002 02:19 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:43:28AM -0600, Laurence Sanford wrote: > > The last couple cvsup's I've done have broken just about > > everything that used linux emulation. Attempting to start > > staroffice causes the computer to simply reboot without any real > > explaination of what happened. > > Check whether it somehow lost its ELF branding; use the brandelf > utility to re-brand the binaries if required. > > > As a result of things breaking, I'm now using Sylpheed for mail, > > Mozilla for a web browser (its working fairly well I might add), > > but I'm lacking something I can use for office software. Does > > something exist that will open word docs and function fairly well > > as a native FreeBSD program, or do I have to wait for the guru's > > that know whats up with Linux emulation to fix whatever's broken > > (God knows I haven't got a clue whats wrong). > > Dunno if koffice can do it..worth investigating. > > Kris Koffice can open word and excel files OK, but doesn't write them in M$ format. -Jim -- Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message