Re: [PLUG] multi-user staroffice

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

On Thursday 13 June 2002 12:12 pm, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > > I think that the magic word is soffice. Find out where the main
> > > soffice is in the install dir. Move install dir to wherever you
> > > want it and symlink soffice in /usr/local/bin to the soffice in
> > > the office dir.
> >
> > This won't work.  In fact, if you do the "network install" as root,
> > sun advises against running that installation, even as root. 
> > Instead, every user must do a "user install" from that network
> > installation. Art Clemmonst describes how it works.
>
> I recall getting this to work a few years back when I still thought
> that office suites were a good thing to have.

It may "work" but the reason they recommend against it is that any 
configuration customizations that you make to the network install 
affects all users.  By doing the user install (about 2 mb of 
configuration files and such are copied to your home directory), each 
user can retain their own customizations.
>
> > > I heard that staroffice is old, and star office charges. Why not
> > > get open office:
> >
> > A year ago, I spent a lot of time investigating what was out there.
> > StarOffice seemed to be the best transition from MS Word, and
> > offered really good document compatibilty.  It was one of the few
> > programs that didn't just open Word docs, it preserved the
> > formatting quite well and allowed them to be reopened in Word
> > without significant format changes. It even did a half decent job
> > with some of my automated templates.
>
> But open office is the next ver of star office that is still free.
> Open office is like star office 6.0 lite.

I didn't know that.  I guess that is why open office wasn't around when 
I was looking around before.  The choices, then were SO, Abiword, 
Corel, KOffice (in its infancy) and another big one I have a mental 
block recalling.



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