From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 17 23:38:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6757737B404 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:38:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 91879 invoked by uid 100); 18 Feb 2002 07:38:49 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15472.44937.241831.56766@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 01:38:49 -0600 To: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility In-Reply-To: <42808873@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) 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 D. Michael McFarland types: > So what's my question? Given that I'm willing to put a little money > and more than a little effort into getting it going, what have people > found is the most MS-compatible, robust application of this sort? I'd say StarOffice. I use Applixware as an Office suite myself, but it doesn't rate very high on the MS-compatible scale, and it's not clear that the FreeBSD version has a future. > I have used StarOffice a little under both Linux and FreeBSD, but > recent versions (as of a few months ago) don't play well with > XFree86 v. 4 on my laptop (an IBM T-22 running STABLE). If the only reason you're running it is to read documents from people who are to lazy to convert them to a non-proprietary format, just go back to running the older versions of StarOffice until you get a document that it doesn't understand because one of them upgraded and forgot to save it in the old version so that everyone else has to ugprade to read it. Of course, the best thing to do if you're collaborating on a document is to load it into *your* favorite application for dealing with documents of that type, do your work, and send it back to them in that applications format. A truly fitting sabotage. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message