Re: [Sheflug] StarOffice 6.0b

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah! Do you mean OpenOffice.org? I have the latest build (grabbed it a
300K/s from work :)

Works like a charm. Word import/export is amazing, as is excel and
powerpoint. Even stuff like the indexing is preserved even though Word's
indexing system is less advanced.

Anyway, everything is fast EXCEPT for the initial start time, which on my
machine (PIII 700, 128Mb) is about 15-20 seconds! Not good at all.

Anyway, once it's loaded, mui impresso. Shame they use times for ALL the
fonts. Arial is so much easier to read.....

Craig

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Alex Hudson wrote:

> Well...
>
> I finally got to the StarOffice download. Having visited a load of other
> download servers (download.com, tucows, etc.) I couldn't find SO6 anywhere
> (at least, not in Linux form - download.com has got it for Windows though).
>
> 118Mb!!!!
>
> Crikey. I've selected the 'Low Bandwidth' option, which lets you download the
> pieces in bite-sized chunks. For values of 'bite-sized' equal to '9Mb' :S
>
> I think I'll attempt to download one, maybe two, a night. That way, it'll
> only be a week (working at weekends too ;) to get the whole lot! :(
>
> I think I shall attempt to set up my FRIACO line for demand mode, and set up
> a funky Perl script to go get 'em ;) Give it a few days of solid download
> time (I should be able to get 9Mb in before the two-hour cut off ;) and I'll
> have it.
>
> Anyone else got it running? I personally can't wait - I didn't even think the
> previous versions were too bad, and this one is supposed to be pretty good.
> All I need is good Office '97 interoperability (that's the standard we use at
> work) and I'm sorted ..
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
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