From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 28 23:22:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E204D37B407 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CAE343E6E for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:22:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rh@storm2k.com) Received: from user-119a7q7.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.31.71] helo=athlon.storm2k.com) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17kIhH-0006K5-00; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:22:27 -0700 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020829002021.00add248@mail.storm2k.wsonline.net> X-Sender: storm2k@mail.storm2k.wsonline.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:25:21 -0600 To: Lawrence Sica , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: RichardH Subject: Re: new subject- office stuff In-Reply-To: References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020829000049.00ad4bc0@mail.storm2k.wsonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:14 AM 8/29/2002, Lawrence Sica wrote: >On 08/29/02 02:05 AM, "RichardH" wrote: > If openoffice is "fixed" what patches, etc. need > > to be done in what order, etc. (seems to me if it is "fixed" it should not > > need to be patched, sounds like MS crap) > > >Openoffice would be nice, ive used it on Solaris, not on FreeBSD. Koffice >does do word docs I cant say how well though. > >Catdoc will extract text from word docs, it is in the ports. Comes with a >viewer too. > >As an aside I find it ironic that office v.x for the mac is a better quality >product than ms office for windows. At least from my use it seems to be. Will delve further into koffice, it sets up easy, reloading whole sys now so deciding what to use. OO seems to be good for some people here and others cannot get it running. Supposedly patching it fixes it but there is no clear documentation for the exact steps to do it (in mail list archives at least). Will check catdoc, just need to view "word" docs, can send replys, etc. in plain text. Any additional info on OO would be helpful from ppl reading this and running it successfully. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message