From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 18 07:20:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA08765 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 07:20:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns3-18.netcom.ca [207.181.94.146]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA08760; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 07:20:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id LAA10744; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 11:20:16 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 11:20:16 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker Reply-To: The Hermit Hacker To: multimedia@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: A few StarOffice related questions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi... Originally having overlooked the thread in multimedia concerning StarOffice, I went back into the archives and re-read all of the messages, and haven't seemed to come across answers for any of these, so I shall ask here. ====[ online help ]==== svdaemon needs to be started to get online help...has anyone succeeded in getting this to work? If I type 'svdaemon', it just sort of hangs there, where I would have expected it to auto-background itself. Not so big a problem, except that if I go to help/contents, I get nothing. If I do a 'ps x' after doing this, I see: 10557 v0 S 0:00.06 /usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/linux-x86/bin/svdaemon Oops, swriter3 starts up its own svdaemon when you try to do help/contents...the readme file seems to imply that I had to do it manually :( Restart swriter3, don't start svdaemon, go to help/contents...it starts up svdaemon, but still no help. ====[ inter-application communication ]==== Again, doesn't auto-background, but since I'm not really certain on how to make use of that one, can't test it. Also, after a period of time, I get: Cannot register service: RPC: Timed out unable to register (SVPORTMAP, SVPORTMAPVERSION, udp). ====[ swriter3: loading files ]==== The reason I wanted at online help was to hopefully find an answer to this problem. I have a text based file that I want to load up into StarOffice and play around with formatting and whatnot. If I go to open and try to load the file, I get an error of: Non-existent object Non-existent file So I can't seem to load the file. If I rename the file as .txt, I get as far as it asking me for the 'filter' to use, which I choose 'Text Unix', and then after I click 'Ok', it then proceeds to give me the same error again, but actually loads the file this time... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org