Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 23:09:10 -0500 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Word processors under FreeBSD Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970909230910.006babe0@midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970909205424.006c43a0@midwest.net>
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Hmmm.. I must be on drugs..hehehe This should be; I haven't had the chance to try any X-windows applications since I've moved my system to a packad bell 486/33, to slow to get anything productive done in x-windows........ At 08:54 PM 9/9/97 -0500, you wrote: >It had the chance to run any X-Windows applications since I moved was just >a guess, I haven't my BSD box to a packard bell 486/33. Works great for ppp >-alias, and thats about it.. :) > > > > >At 08:43 PM 9/9/97 -0400, you wrote: >>Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: >>> >>> Is your network connection down when you start star office, On my system >>> whenever I open netscape, and my link is down there's 2 min delay or so, >>> Netscape is setup to access a local page first not anything that needs to >>> be resolved.... >>> >>Hmmm..nope..on a T1, 24 hours a day. But...perhaps it is looking for the >>StarOffice site for the browser functions? Perhaps there is a slow link >>to StarOffice's site in Germany? >> >> >> Jim Durham wrote: >>> >> >>> >> > A number of people commented that StarOffice works quite nicely >>> >> > under FreeBSD, and it does...except for one problem that must >>> >> > be happening here only because no one mentioned it. Any time I >>> >> > start a StarOffice application, it "pauses" for 3 minutes before >>> >> > it comes up, then runs fine. >>> >> > >> > >> >>> >> No... No problem like 3 mins wait for me.... >>> >> Prashant. >>> > >>> > For me (pentium 133, 34M, running netscape) 40 Sec. >>> > >>> >>That's pretty long for what you have. This is just a 5X86 with 40 Megs >>running 3.0-SNAP. >> >> >>-- >>Jim Durham <Television Engineer-Unitel Mobile Video, Pittsburgh> >> <Computer Consultant/Hobbyist> <Amateur Radio: W2XO> >> <Web:http://www.w2xo.pgh.pa.us>; <Packet:W2XO@W2XO.#SWPA.PA.USA.NOAM> >> >> > >
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