[olug] OpenOffice app server?

Ryan O'Rourke ryano at ch-gifts.com
Tue Mar 25 14:12:53 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:01, Quinn Coldiron wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps you could run an X-Windows client on your Windoze PCs?
> 
> This is actually a good idea.  The Cygwin system from RedHat provides a
> very good XWin system.  I use it on our W2k and XP boxes here for an X
> client.  It's much better than the 2 packages we bought.

Okay, so maybe installing Cygwin with X on the Windows machines and
running OOo from an NFS or Samba share on the Linux box is the way to
go?

I was also thinking about forwarding OOo through SSH, but was having
problems starting a new, blank OOo document from the command line.
Anyone know the trick to that? I keep getting the setup screen whenever
I do 'cd /usr/lib/openoffice/program/ ; ./swriter'


OT: hey, Quinn, you work at Cerner? Say hello to Jeff Olsen for me if
you know him... I think he's a sales drone over in Sector 7G :-)

-- Ryan



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