This version was *a lot* easier to install. download it, move it to a user directory, untar it (for some silly reason, it's jsut a tar rather than .tgz), and it creates a directory. Then run the setup in this directory, but from your home directory, and it creates an Office40 directory. then just ~/Office40/bin/soffice, and you're off & running.
But it's as annoying as microsoft stuff to use. Only one main window, and everything else opens within this. ugh. You can't see the help pages (pain in the *** to access/maneuver) and your document at the same time unless you launch a second instance. subwindows are limited to the boundries of the original. any attempt to search causes a segfault--but it does create correct rescue files. A lot more hassle than lyx, but i need formletters for the job hunt. It's this or the 25mhz mac with a printer that no longer feeds properly. And it apparently trades files with msoft just fine. It kept all formattting information from a mac word 5.0 file saved as rtf. Now if someone who understands such things would make an installer . . . :) I tried installing it as root in a couple of places, but it doesn't work right; it crashes when it doesn't find some files. But I'm the only one using this machine, so it will work for a while . . . rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
