[aclug-L] Re: Corel's Office Suite will work... it just wants a printer.

[J Lancaste <pantherace13@xxxxxxxxx>]

It also wants a floppy drive, for some reason. (I learned
this from mark, who can either have a floppy or cd in his
laptop (No Clip artfrom the cd)

James L

--- Jeremy King <jmking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yippee!!!
> 
> After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I decided to
> strace WordPerfect to
> see where it was dying.  The strace output said something
> about print
> services, so I checked to see the status of lpr on my
> laptop.  Sure enough,
> since I almost never want to print from my laptop, I had
> disabled lpr a
> while back.  I got lpr setup--didn't need to configure a
> printer--and that
> solved the problem.  The whole office suite is working
> now.  Kind of a
> fruity bug if you ask me (it could have at least told me
> why it had to
> die!!!), but it's easy enough to solve.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeremy King <jmking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 12:35 AM
> Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Corel's Office Suite will it work?
> 
> 
> > I've been trying to install it on a celeron 333 (or
> 300?) with 128 mb ram.
> > If hardware is the problem I'll eat my shorts.  When I
> originally posted,
> I
> > had plenty of disk space, but in the interim I've
> downloaded the install
> > files for redhat 6.2. which ate up most of my free
> Linux partion (and took
> > roughly the advertised 27 hrs at 56k, spread over three
> nights).  So now
> > I've tried installing it on corel (both the full and
> minimal installs) and
> > on redhat 6.2 (minimal install only).  I've struck out
> on three tries with
> > the office suite, and the linux distribution makes
> Win98 look stable, so
> it
> > looks like all I'm getting for my money is a cute
> little plush penguin.
> > Ouch.
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> 
> 
> 
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