From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 21:47: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com (smtp017.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C14037B43C for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 21:47:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from unknown (HELO as2.kptn.org) (203.106.174.114) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 May 2001 04:47:04 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 12:53:48 +0800 From: Alvin Sim X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.52f) Reply-To: Alvin Sim Organization: n/a X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <2311490332.20010512125348@yahoo.co.uk> To: Bill Schoolcraft Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re[2]: StarOffice 5.1 and FreeBSD 4.3-S In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Saturday, May 12, 2001, 11:52:43 AM, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: BS> At Fri, 11 May 2001 it looks like Bob Greene composed: >> Chuck the CD and ftp the 5.2 version instead. It's swell. >> heh heh... i'm on a dialup so, although downloading is not a _big_ problem, i would like to avoid that if possible. and if i recall reading (the archive?) correctly, there's a lot of big chuunks of files that i have to download. BS> I've also been looking for the *.tar version and have yet to locate BS> a site that will "accept" a connection. Any ideas ? BS> I advertise FreeBSD at my work (a Linux company) but have to either BS> use my Solaris or Linux box to walk StarOffice customers through BS> problems, FreeBSD is my main box at work except for that issue. BS> I've tried to build from /usr/ports/ but to no avail. there are 'ways' of going about it in installing but i cant find anything (in the -questions archive) that is subjected(?) to the 5.1 cd that i have. fyi, i am running 4.3-S and the only word processor i have is abiword but it lacks table support, which is why the only alternative i have is applixware (not free), and staroffice. still, the question remains :) -- Alvin mailto:bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message