From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 21 14:52:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E35A152A5 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:52:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA79432; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:52:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:52:04 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: Brooks Davis , Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's StarOffice 5.1 - Revisited Message-ID: <19990921225204.D64282@florence.pavilion.net> References: <199909212042.NAA02119@freeway.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199909212042.NAA02119@freeway.dcfinc.com> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message