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Date:      Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:52:04 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sun's StarOffice 5.1 - Revisited
Message-ID:  <19990921225204.D64282@florence.pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <199909212042.NAA02119@freeway.dcfinc.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909211011080.7125-100000@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <199909212042.NAA02119@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 01:42:55PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote:
> As I recall, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Peter McGarvey wrote:
> > > 65MB download.  But excessive if you ask me.
> 
> Really?  For an office suite with more functionality than Micro$oft
> Office (which takes something like 300 megabytes)?
> 
> > > If anyone is interested Sun is giving away free copies of Star Office on
> > > CD.  But only in the UK as far as I can tell.
> > 
> > You can get them for about $10 in the US.  Someone at the office just got
> > his.
> 
> They're $9.95 (plus S&H) for a CD with binaries for OS/2, Windows,
> Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86 and Linux.  There's also a boatload of
> fonts, both Adobe and TrueType.

Any ideas why StarOffice appears to ignore any Truetype fonts installed
under X?

Joe
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