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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:54:04 -0500
From:      Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OpenOffice
Message-ID:  <20021114015404.GC210@scott1.homeunix.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021114013118.58578.qmail@web40406.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20021114013118.58578.qmail@web40406.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 05:31:18PM -0800, Ted Brenner wrote:
> I have FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE installed on a Pentium III
> machine and I installed OpenOffice but when ever I try
> and open up a Word2000 document that I saved on my
> Windows machine, OpenOffice closes sayin an
> unrecoverable error.  Has anyone else experienced this
> and know what's causing it?  Or how to find out what's
> causing it?

I've had that problem with OpenOffice, but usually, in such a case,
nothing at all opens (hrrm, is that a bad pun?) =20

One thing that seems to be a factor is that it has to be installed--that
is, cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice and make install as root--not sudo
and not even su--this seems to have to do with various paths during
installation.  (This is not from having knowledge of this, it's from
searching Google and finding it echoed in my own experience).

These days though, on a new installation, I usually just download the
FreeBSD binaries from openoffice.org.  I've had good luck on a few
recent installs with that, no problems whatsoever.

FWIW, when it works, I can open Word 2000 documents without problem.

Hope this is of some small use.
>

--=20

Scott

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