From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 18 9:58:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA1714F60 for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 09:58:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id SAA18122; Tue, 18 May 1999 18:58:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local-smtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 10jnMl-0001WZ-00; Tue, 18 May 1999 19:09:19 +0200 Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 19:09:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Adam Szilveszter To: William Woods Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: StarOffice 5.0.... In-Reply-To: <000401bea145$a1d68b00$0c4b93cd@william> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! On Tue, 18 May 1999, William Woods wrote: > I went to their download page and it is down right now for "redesign"....any > other places that you know of? > Well, it also says now that it will be open tomorrow... you should be a bit more patient:-) Maybe there will be some new release coming out as well... you can download the binary from a couple of places and in fact even buy it on CD-ROM (sometimes they give it with various IT magazines) but if you download it it will not run unless you have a license key. The CD versions will work with the media key on the cover for 30 days but after that a key must be acquired for them as well. In fact, w/o the key you cannot even install it because it is like in Windoze, the install program with dialog boxes and stuff. (And eats up horredous amount of resources, especially RAM.) I only use it for M$ compatibilty because this far this is the only suite that handles M$ formats both for import and export and is free for personal non-commercial use (ugh! That term very much sounds like some shareware notice... I hated 'em on Windoze:-) But I simply cannot say to people who do not even know that Microsoft exists and that there is also a world beyond Win that please do not give those .doc and .xls files to me. To them, using Word is equivalent to typing documents. They cannot even imagine it differently.(I even had a hard time convincing them that they should not pass around files in Office97 format because there are many who use older versions.) A place to download from would be the Sunsite at UNC or ftp.tu-clausthal.de, BTW. But after you get the key, it will tell you all places where you should go. Regards: Szilveszter Szeged University Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message