Re: openoffice crashes X

Jef Spaleta wrote:

>On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 10:24, HoytDuff wrote:
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>>On Friday 13 September 2002 03:58 am, Keith Adamson scribbled in crayon on a 
>>yellow legal pad:
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>>>Simply opening the attached file in openoffice crashes X.  It only a two
>>>page document made by openoffice today and saved in MS format.
>>>
>>>All the latest null updates installed
>>>
>>>Any help?
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>>It opens fine in MS Word97 running under cxoffice.
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>Is that a slightly veiled endorsement for running cxoffice?
>Personally I don't think thats very helpful information on a beta list
>considering cxoffice isn't actually a part of the beta and the question
>was directly related to how OO in the beta functions...but hey the beta
>phase is over right....so no biggie...
>On a related note...does running cxoffice open you up to MS software
>related security problems?
>
>-jef
>
Yep :) I wonder that too. M$ has said they will not fix the newest 
security holes discovered in office97.
It's probably not new to M$ anyway, just another of their "hidden 
features" :)

-J