From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 18:48:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f156.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14CF937B416 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:48:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:48:15 -0800 Received: from 24.38.53.86 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:48:15 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.38.53.86] From: "Charles Burns" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD native Office software? Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:48:15 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Jan 2002 02:48:15.0949 (UTC) FILETIME=[6B2D8FD0:01C19A4A] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 > >Koffice can open word and excel files OK, but doesn't write them in >M$ format. You might try rebuilding OpenOffice from source. I haven't done this myself, so do not know if it builds under FreeBSD. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message