From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 19:16:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (ipl-229-012.npt-sdsl.stargate.net [208.223.229.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1D137B401 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:16:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from shazam (shazam [192.168.5.3]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA91833; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 03:16:18 GMT (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:19:33 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Durham X-Sender: durham@shazam.int To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good text based word processor, database question, and freebsd-uk In-Reply-To: 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 On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Just a thought. Since you are using ssh, why not use X forwarding > > and then use Staroffice on the server? You could also use > > xmysql and xmysqladmin to set up the database. > > I have never been able to get xforwarding to work right, either on a BSD > machine or an X server running on a Windoze machine.> In what way does it not work? The only thing that I notice is that it is slow to come up initially.. -Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message