From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Apr 18 10:40:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA20940 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:40:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA20903; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA14392; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:40:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: The Hermit Hacker cc: multimedia@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few StarOffice related questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Originally having overlooked the thread in multimedia concerning > StarOffice, I went back into the archives and re-read all of the messages, > and haven't seemed to come across answers for any of these, so I shall > ask here. A#1: What version of libc do you have in /compat/linux/lib? Stuff won't work properly if you don't have the most recent libs. I believe the linux-lib-2.4 port is in, so you should be able to grab & install it from ports-current. > ====[ online help ]==== > > svdaemon needs to be started to get online help...has anyone succeeded > in getting this to work? If I type 'svdaemon', it just sort of hangs there, > where I would have expected it to auto-background itself. Not so big a > problem, except that if I go to help/contents, I get nothing. If I do a 'ps x' > after doing this, I see: [...] The English help isn't available, so you get a nice note telling you to try such and such website and blah... so you aren't missing anything. > I have a text based file that I want to load up into StarOffice > and play around with formatting and whatnot. If I go to open and try to > load the file, I get an error of: > > Non-existent object > Non-existent file > > So I can't seem to load the file. I loaded a Word 6 file okay, so I can't help you. Did you check permissions? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major