Re: Star Office 5.1

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, John Wilkinson wrote:

> I get SO 5.1 from SUN and installed it on my Win 98 and all was good, i
> managed to go to the sun site using star office as a browser, and then
> it let me go into a secure mode.
> I tried a similar thing in Linux, but it said that this is unsupported
> on this platform.
> Is this true, can Star Office be used as a secure browser on Linux as it
> can on Win 98?

Quite possible. I don't know whether or not so makes use of
platform-specific features, such as wincrypto, but it wouldn't surprise
me.

> If not is this the first of many drop offs in favour of Windows?

If by that you're implying sun are going to start making SO win-centric,
forget it. It won't happen.

Cheers,

Alex.

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