M$ and Open Office

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Thanks Martin

You have me intrigued now ! I have had some trouble doing the pkg_add.I
specify openoffice1.1RC4, but I get the message that the package doesn't
exist. Didn't want to just go pkg_add for open office in case I
downloaded 1.0.3 again, and didn't want to download the compressed file
at the website as it stated that it was for FreeBSD 5.0 and above, and
may not work with other versions. As it was a 90MB download, I thought I
would look for another way before such a large download that might not
work.The wrapper has me going, can you please point me in a direction
there. What to install, or a link to read up. I would appreciate it.

Thank you
Andrew Kozak

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 17:12, Martin Blapp wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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