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[fpawlak@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Pawlak)]

On Feb 14,  3:49pm, Benjamin van Ruyssevelt wrote:
> Subject: Re[2]: [S.u.S.E. Linux] star-office 2
>
> What about an installation script ?

Sorry, your question doesn't parse.  What installation script are you referring
to?
Frank

> B@N
>
> On Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:43:28 -0600
> "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Feb 13,  7:22am, Tom Schaefer wrote:
> > > Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] star-office 2
> > >
> > > Benjamin van Ruyssevelt wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would like to start by thanking everybody for pointing me to places
> > > > where I could download Staroffice..
> > > >
> > > > However, I have a corrupt installation script ("setup")..
> > > > I would appreciate it very much if someone could send me a working
> > script........
> > > >
> > > > Thank you very much in advance.
> > >
> > > I bought Caldera's Open Linux 1.1 back around June of '97 and they
included a
> > Star
> > > Office CD as part of the bundle.
> > >
> > > What a waste. You're better off spending a few dollars for Applixware or
Word
> > > Perfect. I cooould not get Star Office to install at all!  I fiddled with
the
> > rpm's,
> > > fiddled with config files - it was pure hell.
> > >
> > > Star Office poses no threat to any of the other office suites or word
> > processors.
> > > There is no point in putting yourself through the agony.
> > >
> > > -tks-
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > I would beg to differ with you on this.  I also went the exact route
outlined
> > above and agree with it 100%.  But, only as far as it goes.  If I recall
> > correctly I did get StarOffice installed and running, however, I blew it
away
> > and went the Applix and WordPerfect Route.  I did not like the appearance
of
> >  documnets produced by Star Office 3.1.
> >
> > I managed to get version 4.0 downloaded last week  and it is a differnet
> > ballgame than 3.1.  Understand that I haven't had a lot of time to work
with
> > it, but it appears that they have made some big strides to improve the
suite.
> >  There are still some things that I want to examine further before passing
> > judgement on it, but at this time it looks fairly good.
> >
> > As I see it today, it is a large and powerfull office suite, perhaps a
little
> > overwhelming at first.  I have found the help files to be fairly complete

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> > at
> > least to get one comfortable with the interface and begin working.
> >
> > IMHO, this is a second or third generation product that has been improved a
> > lot, and the price for an individual user is right -- free.  It is a mega
> > download -- almost 46M, but worth a look.
> > Cheers,
> > Frank
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