Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:11:55 -0500 From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Laurence Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD native Office software? Message-ID: <200201102221.g0AMLnE03763@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <20020110111931.D8887@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020110084328.22acd600.lauasanf@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> <20020110111931.D8887@xor.obsecurity.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200201102221.g0AMLnE03763>