From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 23 23:21:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C5937B6D1 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 23:21:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p114.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.114]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA61226; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 08:19:55 +0200 Received: from moritz (moritz [10.0.0.4]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA02813; Sat, 24 Jun 2000 04:31:37 GMT (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 04:31:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: Doug Young Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Staroffice 3.1 In-Reply-To: <019d01bfdd69$93b7bce0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > It doesnt install. WP comes as a *tar file, you untar it and you get some > > ?_??? files, a Reame and a Runme, that works. Its around 24 MB big, thats > > ok for download, well 1 and a half hour.... > > > Hmmmm ....maybe OK for geeks but thats not gonna win it many "real world > office" users. At least StarOffice 5.x (for both Windows & Solaris anyway) > has > an installer that any moron could use. I guess the linux version has Well, you misunderstood me maybe ;-) This "Runme" is the moronlike installer. Like setup.exe in the Windows world. With Staroffice, you get millions of files, and the setupscript is broken, in 3.1. But we are not a Wordprocessoradvocacygroup ;-) Anyway, thanks again for the www.corel.com advices.. H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message