Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 19:58:19 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 Message-ID: <20000516195819.J233@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000516084052.A12672@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>; from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:40:53AM %2B0200 References: <200005152346.QAA11498@freeway.dcfinc.com> <200005160032.KAA09256@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au> <20000516084052.A12672@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
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On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:40:53AM +0200, Szilveszter Adam wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:32:49AM +1000, Gary Roberts wrote:
>
[snip]
> > 2. It caused W98 to crash more frequently when she was trying to `push'.
>
> Hmmm I cannot comment on this one, the w9x line is fairly easy to crash...
> all you need is sometimes to take out the floppy disk when it thinks you
> should not do this... on the other hand, I suspect we have some of the
> highest uptimes on w95 boxes here at the dorm because we do not turn them
> off every evening, just log off:-)
>
Doesn't W95 hang after 47.9(?) days anyway ;-)
> > 3. She wasn't able to produce documents that our clients could open
> > correctly under Office97. Since we send a lot of documents as email
>
> This is something I do not understand. During the summer I used to work on a
> document in the following fashion: I went into the office in the morning,
> used Office97 there. Went home, fired up StarOffice, worked some more. Then
> next morning continued with Office97... and had absolutely no problems with
> it. Sometimes Word thought it was an RTF file, but so what? I also noticed
> that the same file, when saved in StarOffice, became considerably smaller,
> because I suspect much of the bloat was removed from it.
Word uses Unicode for it's files, 16-bits per character.
[snip]
>
> Regards:
>
> Szilveszter ADAM
> Szeged University
> Szeged Hungary
>
>
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