On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 11:08:58AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 04:28:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Is MDI (and the lack of it in OOo) the cause of "last close termi- > > nates OOo"? > > > > I don't like "last close terminates OOo" either, and think that > > "create new document after closing the last one to prevent termination" > > is a good idea. Should this be "bugged" upstream? Surely, many > > have complained of it... > > What is MDI? > > I don't use OO regularly for word processing, but it's hard to imagine > this is not annoyance.
MDI stands for "Multiple Document Interface." It is where you have many sub-windows within a larger application window. See the Program Manager from Windows 3.1 for a good example. Simon