[plug] OOov1.0

[John Knight]

I fired up a Word doc under OpenOffice.org and it fired up no worries, on my 
dad's laptop using RH 7.3, he was well impressed! :)

>Me 2... and 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and 7...
>:) Finally, maybe I can convince dad to dish M$ crap.
>Tim
>At 00:34 14/08/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>>I'll agree with that. :)
>>
>>>Hi all, Just installed OOov1.0 off the APC mag CD, July '02. It was under
>>>the directory
>>>/ontest/files as Zipped and Tar.Gz files for windows and Linux versions
>>>respectively.
>>>I can definitely say it works!! I have only one Spreadsheet file in my
>>>possession and
>>>it was made on msworks v3.0. All i did was save it as a *.csv file, put 
>>>it
>>>on a floppy and
>>>then tried to import it into GNumeric and it crashed that App. Then I
>>>installed OOo and
>>>did not even reboot, then tried to import it into Calc and it went in 
>>>first
>>>Pop. That is
>>>absolutely amazing!! I'd also like to say something about "Generic file
>>>formats".
>>>
>>>  Because a certain company in redmond changes their file formats around 
>>>when
>>>they introduce a
>>>new version of their Office product, I have been telling people to save
>>>their data in Generic FF's such as .RTF, .CSV or as Text Files so that we
>>>can use these files on other platforms. If all of PLUG can start doing 
>>>this,
>>>maybe we can stymie "Closed File Formats" and cause You Know Who plenty 
>>>of
>>>grief. However, Open Office may be able to take on the Closed Nature of 
>>>MS's
>>>files and cause some grief that way. Either way, this is the beginning of
>>>the end for microsoft. Wouldn't that be Wonderful? Thanks for listening 
>>>to
>>>my ramblings!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Make lunch, not war.
>>
>>
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>LinuxAlien
>Riverton, Perth, WA
>
>Australian Linux Technical Conference, Perth 2003 http://linux.conf.au




Make lunch, not war.


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