From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 17 0:34:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F3F37B953 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 00:34:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [62.6.101.160] (helo=parish.my.domain) by protactinium with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12rnBg-0004pP-00; Tue, 16 May 2000 20:39:28 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01289; Tue, 16 May 2000 19:58:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 19:58:19 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Szilveszter Adam Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 Message-ID: <20000516195819.J233@parish> References: <200005152346.QAA11498@freeway.dcfinc.com> <200005160032.KAA09256@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au> <20000516084052.A12672@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i 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 +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message