From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 29 17:18: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CAAB1520D for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:17:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29330; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:17:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id RAA22263; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:17:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:17:55 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Gerald Speak Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: getting StarOffice Message-ID: <20000129171755.A22259@athena.sea.tera.com> References: <01BF6A93.0B3DCEC0.gaspeak@erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: <01BF6A93.0B3DCEC0.gaspeak@erols.com>; from Gerald Speak on Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 07:56:33PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 07:56:33PM -0500, Gerald Speak wrote: > you also might try http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/fulldocscd.html you > would get printed documentation, and a CD for all platforms for $40 > > I've seen a few cheap Linux distributions that contain a StarOffice CD for > around $20 or less. Some companies like Infomagic may even have a > dedicated version for sale at a local computer store. If you're interested > in the software but not patient enough to do a download (like me), this may > be your way to go. > > > > > At 11:38 AM 1/29/00 , Walter Brameld wrote: > >I also have noticed all the posts about Star Office and thought I > >might try installing it to see if I had any problems, but at a 65 mb > >download, I guess I'll pass. > > With as stable as our ports system is, I'll rely on that rather than even a free CD. Just begin the download late Saturday night, and it'll finish overnight. My only reservation is that with SO-5.1, no src. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message