[25302] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.23: star office
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Nov 5 16:32:12 2003
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To: alex_c@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[25268] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 16:32:04 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: alexp@mit.edu
cc: hhealy@mit.edu
cc: bugs@mit.edu
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Hi, you reported:
> A user came by SIPB trying to use "templates" in star office.
>
>What's wrong:
>
> She accessed the "templates" option under the tools or format
> menu, I can't remember which exactly. She chose the "classic fax"
> template. This resulted in star office complaining of an error
> while accessing the file
>
> /mit/soffice_v6.0/distrib/i386_linux24/share/template/english/officorr/faxclassic.stw
>
>What should have happened:
>
> The user should been introduced to a better document preparation
> system. But I thought the above bug report might be marginally
> helpful to anyone consigned to the task of maintaining this
> software.
Well, being one of those so consigned, I took a look. It seems like all the
template files and examples are unloadable by Star Office. But if I copy them
to my home directory they load just fine. The fact that the original location
is read-only doesn't seem to make a difference. I suspect a maximum path
length limitation, but presuming there is one there isn't much I can do
about it; in any case the latest and greatest Star Office release is due in
a week or two so I don't see any point in efforts to fix this. You didn't say
who the user was, but in case she cares, she can copy the templates locally
out of /mit/soffice_v6.0/distrib/i386_linux24/share/samples/english
Cheers,
Alex Prengel
MIT Academic Computing Support Team
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