SOT Office 2002 ?

[Marianne Taylor]

It hasn't changed.  I only remembered because it has been brought up on this 
list so many times.  Of course this type of info should be in the readme.  
Also how to open the other included apps should be in there as well.  Poor 
documentation won't win anyone over, esp Windows users.

Marianne Taylor

On May 6, 2002 02:21 pm, you wrote:
> Well for one thing with OOoyou need a Green Hornet secret decoder ring to
> figure out how to install it.  You have to use a /net and other options to
> get it to work but that's not in any readme or other docs that come with
> 641D binary OR source.  I did remember from a distant time when I installed
> SO 5.2 that there were options - this after I did the OOo install and found
> it didn't work - but I didn't remember them.  However, I never found
> anything on the web site and was stuck until someone on the OOo mailing
> list gave me an obscure URL that explained what to do.  I haven't tried OOo
> 1.0 or whatever is the current version but maybe they do actually tell you
> how to install it now so you don't have to be psychic <G>.
>
> Things like this make rpm -Uvh or rpm -ivh more and more attractive.
>
> Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> > On Monday 06 May 2002 04:43, Collins wrote:
> >> I downloaded and installed it, but it appears to be OO or Star redux -
> >> same crappy install process, same overall look, so I trashed it, since
> >> I already have OO.
> >
> > What's so crappy about the SO/OO install process? I did quite a lot of
> > installs on win resp. linux systems, and I wished all my installation
> > adventures had been that harmless.
> > Klaus

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Marianne Taylor