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Date:      Thu, 21 Aug 1997 07:40:03 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us (Jim Durham)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: StarOffice start-up time(slow)
Message-ID:  <199708211240.HAA03648@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <33FBB724.446B9B3D@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> from Jim Durham at "Aug 20, 97 11:33:56 pm"

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In a previous message, Jim Durham said:
> I'd like to compare notes with anyone who has tried running the
> StarOffice suite.
> 
> On my system, a 5X86-133 with 40 megs of ram, it takes 2 or 3 *minutes*
> for any StarOffice app to start doing something. Once up, StarWriter
> (at least) runs OK. (Stardraw crashes).
> 
> I'm running 3.0-SNAP (970807) .
> 
> Is this to get you to buy the commercial version 8) ?
> 
> -Jim Durham


I had the same question a couple months ago. The response I got was that
this was by design, for reasons, that I don't remember other than they
made no sense. It annoyed me too much to use. I'm back to Win95 and
123-97 and Word 6 (won't use anything new, WAY to bloated).

Paul.

-- 
"Forgive them, for they know not what they do."



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