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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:19:31 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Laurence Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD native Office software?
Message-ID:  <20020110111931.D8887@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020110084328.22acd600.lauasanf@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org>; from lauasanf@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:43:28AM -0600
References:  <20020110084328.22acd600.lauasanf@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org>

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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
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