Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 13:32:58 +1000 From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> To: David Heller <dheller1@rochester.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice difficulties with msdos partition Message-ID: <00050113364003.00327@freebsd.freebsd.org> References: <390B931D.CA44AE51@rochester.rr.com>
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I have Applixware for FreebSD and is extremely good. Compared to Staroffice, Instead of compiling the kernel, spending hours install the ports etc etc Applixware installs on your computer in 15 minutes. For $185 Aus I believe the time saving is worth the 185 On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, David Heller wrote: > John Daniels wrote: > > > > Hi: > > Dual boot setup with Windows98 and FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE, KDE and StarOffice > > 5.1a. > > /etc/fstab file contains: > > /dev/ad0s1 /msdos msdos rw,longnames,-u=1002,-g=1002 0 2 > > > > Problem: > > StarOffice editor: File -> Open shows only a limited number of file and > > directories. For example the MyDocuments folder is not listed. But if I > > specify a path and filename which is not listed, it _will_ open the file. > > > > I tried editing a word file (which wasn't listed) and it found it and wrote > > it (with a different filename) but when I tried to open the file after > > booting Win98, I got an error message (check filename and permissions on > > file and directory...) > > > > The KDE editor and KDE file manager show all files and directories under the > > /msdos directory and will edit them and write them and I have no problem > > opening the files again under Win98. *BUT* I have only used the KDE editor > > with text files, not with word files. > > > > Is anyone aware of these problems, know of any fixes/workarounds? Am I > > doing something wrong? Any help is very apprecitated. > > > > John > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > Better yet purchase Applixware for FreeBSD. I've heard it's pretty good > (I have not tried it yet). And it will probably run alot faster then a > Linux program. > > Regards > > Dave > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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