Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:57:49 -0400 From: David Heller <dheller1@rochester.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: StarOffice difficulties with msdos partition Message-ID: <390B931D.CA44AE51@rochester.rr.com> References: <20000425233635.21035.qmail@hotmail.com>
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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
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