[2092] in Release_7.7_team
Re: request for 'setenv MU_MSWORD soffice'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Sun Feb 6 18:46:05 2000
Message-Id: <200002062345.SAA17825@mary-kay-commandos.mit.edu>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Feb 2000 18:38:53 EST."
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Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 18:45:58 -0500
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> I'm a little bit confused about the exact behavior we're changing
>> here. I thought that word documents were normally shoved thru
>> mswordview and lynx -dump to get text. However, the script look like
>> it will try to use frame if possible. Under exactly what
>> circumstances would we be switching to StarOffice?
The current script should only use Frame for msword 8 docs if you've
set the environment variable MU_MSWORD to "frame"; otherwise, it will
default to using mswordview. What Abby is proposing is adding support
to the current script for "setenv MU_MSWORD soffice" to set a preference
for viewing documents in Star Office, if available.
Garry
