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To: Judd who wrote (607)	11/20/1998 7:40:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Respond to of 2615

>>but StarOffice 5.0 wont run at all on my machine<< The new staroffice uses glibc, so it won't work with distros using the older libc (Suse or Slackware), but it should run OK on redhat or debian. I've run it on both with pretty good results. It _will_ import Word97 native (but not fast-saved). It seemed to do okay on Word and Excel files. Never crashed on me. A peculiarity is that it is not meant to be installed as root, but as the person who will be running it. That threw me off for a bit.

To: Judd who wrote (607)	11/20/1998 10:14:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 2615

Well if it is a front end (the ODBC thing) will it work with Postgres or some other Database system. There is an element of vapour to everything out there that is written for a computer. I bought TurboC++ to find out that it would not upgrade to Borland C++. It was NOT client server and would NOT create OLE applications, 32 bit apps, DOS apps,and the libraries had no source code. Effin Toy. I have spent money better on beer. 700 effin bucks on VB professional to find out they prevented true importation of text databases and the are NOT client server. AND the CKSKRS would not allow me to upgrade from QB extended (DOS) which also could not read across a network or serve and was also 700 bucks. and no longer supported. At least QBX could import text and it was fast. mailto:echarter@vianet.on.ca