From owner-freebsd-openoffice@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 00:12:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-openoffice@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB7B16A4B3 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 00:12:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.imp.ch (mail.imp.ch [157.161.1.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1EB243FD7 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 00:12:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mb@imp.ch) Received: from nbs.imp.ch (nbs.imp.ch [157.161.4.7]) by mail.imp.ch (8.12.9p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h8O7CNQa005231; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:12:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Martin.Blapp@imp.ch) Received: from cvs.imp.ch (cvs.imp.ch [157.161.4.9]) by nbs.imp.ch (8.12.10/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h8O7CJwh15318827; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:12:23 +0200 (MES) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:12:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Blapp To: Andy K In-Reply-To: <1064356436.1510.15.camel@Rockstar.richardflanagan.com.au> Message-ID: <20030924091054.R24438@cvs.imp.ch> References: <1064303459.63215.40.camel@Rockstar.richardflanagan.com.au> <1064356436.1510.15.camel@Rockstar.richardflanagan.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Open Office Questions Subject: Re: M$ and Open Office X-BeenThere: freebsd-openoffice@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting OpenOffice to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 07:12:33 -0000 Hi, > I am using version 1.0.3, (Thats what the directory in home says) and I > installed from the ports collection. Installation seemed to go smoothly, > it took awhile as I am using a P2 with 128MB RAM, but no errors at the > end, and all aspects of the program open and work fine - except when it > comes to opening M$ docs. When I try to open a M$ doc, all of the > information disappears and I get a k# at the top of the page only, or I > get the error - An unrecoverable error has occurred. All modified files > have been saved and can probably be recovered at program restart.- I > have also noticed that the word docs do not have a word icon, yet the > excel doc does.(Microsoft office 97 icons) The original docs are in > office XP format. That sounds like $LANG is not set, and this means that you don't use the openoffice wrapper in /usr/local/bin. You should really install openoffice1.1RC4 ... You can find binarys on http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice Use pkg_add -f to add the package. Martin