M$ and Open Office

[Martin Blapp]

Hi,

> I am using version 1.0.3, (Thats what the directory in home says) and I
> installed from the ports collection. Installation seemed to go smoothly,
> it took awhile as I am using a P2 with 128MB RAM, but no errors at the
> end, and all aspects of the program open and work fine - except when it
> comes to opening M$ docs. When I try to open a M$ doc, all of the
> information disappears and I get a k# at the top of the page only, or I
> get the error - An unrecoverable error has occurred. All modified files
> have been saved and can probably be recovered at program restart.- I
> have also noticed  that the word docs do not have a word icon, yet the
> excel doc does.(Microsoft office 97 icons) The original docs are in
> office XP format.

That sounds like $LANG is not set, and this means that you don't use
the openoffice wrapper in /usr/local/bin.

You should really install openoffice1.1RC4 ... You can find binarys
on http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice

Use pkg_add -f to add the package.

Martin