Open Office installation report?

[omega]

I'm considering installing Open Office. Of course I can find out when I get
to the install, but it'd be nice to know something in advance. How civil it
is, as far as staying in its own directory.

Does it try to put things in the system directory? Or how about in the
"application data\common files" directory? I actually suspect that it intends
the latter. If my suspicious are wrong, however, I'd love to know, as I'd
then be much more willing to proceed with an install.

Finally, although less important than the files spew issue, does anyone have
a report on number of new regkeys it adds?

 

[Bob Adkins]

Finally, although less important than the files spew issue, does anyone have
a report on number of new regkeys it adds?

Karen,

Use JV16 Power tools and/or Total Uninstall run. If using JV16, mark all
registry entries as "old", then install OOo, and run JV16 again. It will
show all new registry entries. Total Uninstall shows just about all changes.

My overall feeling about OOo's hygiene is it's not too bad. It does add a
little Windows DLL and registry bloat, but not as bad as some very small
apps.

Bob

 

[DC]

Use JV16 Power tools and/or Total Uninstall run. If using JV16, mark all
registry entries as "old", then install OOo, and run JV16 again. It will
show all new registry entries. Total Uninstall shows just about all changes.

[...]

Serious question... are we still recommending jv16 in acf? Personally,
I have removed it from the 4 boxes I administer. Did I miss a thread on
this, somewhere?

Thanks.

 

[Steven Burn]

Serious question... are we still recommending jv16 in acf? Personally,
I have removed it from the 4 boxes I administer. Did I miss a thread on
this, somewhere?

</snip>

I know I'm no longer reccomending it..... not sure about anyone else though.

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Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)

 

[DC]

I know I'm no longer reccomending it..... not sure about anyone else though.

Thanks, Steve. Too bad, I liked it a lot -- always part of a base
Windows install, for me, for the last few years. A *big* letdown. }:O\

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)

I know you prolly know, but your sig delimiter is b0rked. Makes for
lots of trimming...

}:O)

HAND

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 21 Jan 2004, DC wrote

Steven Burn wrote in
<[email protected]>:
-snip-




I know you prolly know, but your sig delimiter is b0rked. Makes
for lots of trimming...

His sig delimiter worked for me -- perhaps XNews is compensating for
whatever error is in it.

 

[DC]

On 21 Jan 2004, DC wrote

His sig delimiter worked for me -- perhaps XNews is compensating for
whatever error is in it.

You prolly added this to your xnews.ini -- it fixes busted OE sigs.

SigDashRegex=^\-\-\s?$

I'll have to find a way to implement this with slrn. Thanks for the
reminder.

To Steve: your sig is still b0rked. You don't get off *that* easily!

};O)))

 

[Steven Burn]

To Steve: your sig is still b0rked. You don't get off *that* easily!

};O)))

hehe woops ;o) (I'm afraid you'll have to blame OE for this one though, I've
tried literally everything to sort it out).

--
Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)

 

[DC]

<snip>

hehe woops ;o) (I'm afraid you'll have to blame OE for this one though, I've
tried literally everything to sort it out).

I have *no* reservations whatsoever in blaming OE. Believe me.

But, there *is* a fix for this -- the aptly named OEQuoteFix:
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 21 Jan 2004, DC wrote

Harvey Van Sickle wrote in
<[email protected]>:

Re: broken delimiter

You prolly added this to your xnews.ini -- it fixes busted OE
sigs.

SigDashRegex=^\-\-\s?$

That's it -- I always forget I put that in the .ini file. (It's been
in my configuration for so long, I don't even know who I copied it
from...)

 

[DC]

On 21 Jan 2004, DC wrote

Re: broken delimiter

That's it -- I always forget I put that in the .ini file. (It's been
in my configuration for so long, I don't even know who I copied it
from...)

Probably from DavidB.
http://www.geocities.com/d4vidb/x_setup12.html#sigdash

 

[Bebop & Rocksteady]

I know I'm no longer reccomending it..... not sure about anyone else
though.

Ditto...


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[DC]

On 21 Jan 2004, DC wrote

[...]

His sig delimiter worked for me -- perhaps XNews is compensating for
whatever error is in it.

You prolly added this to your xnews.ini -- it fixes busted OE sigs.

I'll have to find a way to implement this with slrn. Thanks for the
reminder.

slrnners, here's the fix:

% Define regular expression used to detect signatures
% Thanks to ras2 (nsr)
strip_sig_regexp "^-- ?$"

Ah, much better. }:O)

 

[Bob Adkins]

Ditto...

Too bad. There's no real replacement for it. Not yet.

Bob

 

[Ben Cooper]

hehe woops ;o) (I'm afraid you'll have to blame OE for this one
though, I've tried literally everything to sort it out).

Everything except updating to the latest version of Outlook Express.

 

[George Skandalidis]

I'm considering installing Open Office. Of course I can find out when I get
to the install, but it'd be nice to know something in advance. How civil it
is, as far as staying in its own directory.
Does it try to put things in the system directory? Or how about in the
"application data\common files" directory? I actually suspect that it intends
the latter. If my suspicious are wrong, however, I'd love to know, as I'd
then be much more willing to proceed with an install.

I have tracked an installation of the previous stable version with
InCtrl5, but not the latest one. However, I will attempt an answer as
this is the kind of question I have before installing many a program.
For an office suite, I find it admirably restrained. There is a

Finally, although less important than the files spew issue, does anyone have
a report on number of new regkeys it adds?

This, I suspect, depends heavily upon the choice of file association
one has during the install process. Yes, a lot of keys are added,
mainly in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT hierarchy, if you bind it with all the
types it can handle. But that's inevitable, isn't it? Other than
that, use of the registry is sparse.

Take the above with a grain of salt. It is possible that they were
remnants of the previous version and do not apply to the latest one.

 

[Susan Bugher]

Serious question... are we still recommending jv16 in acf? Personally,
I have removed it from the 4 boxes I administer. Did I miss a thread on
this, somewhere?

It's on PL2004 (now listed with the last non-expiring version). (AFAIK
there hasn't been any discussion about whether to recommend it or not.)

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004SYSTEMUTILITIES.htm#A438

Susan

 

[DC]

DC wrote:

It's on PL2004 (now listed with the last non-expiring version). (AFAIK
there hasn't been any discussion about whether to recommend it or not.)

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004SYSTEMUTILITIES.htm#A438

Thank you, Susan.

....

Hey, what's this about you taking "time off"?! I think that there
should be a vote. All in favour...? };O)

 

[Susan Bugher]

...

Hey, what's this about you taking "time off"?! I think that there
should be a vote. All in favour...? };O)

I expect a todo list from Karen will arrive any minute now . . .

Susan

 

[omega]

It has indeed been a long furlough !

I expect a todo list from Karen will arrive any minute now . . .

Now that you mention it.........<G>

There was an item I'd been interested in: further completion of the author
column on the PL. Only, I'd planned to provide some data for some of the
empty spots, before bringing it up. That which means expending a bit of my
own time first, before handing you the next todo list. Hmm. Er.

Well, how about this as first agenda: an extension on the R & R time.