Re: tlug: Sun's StarOffice

["Petersen Jens-Ulrik (NRC/Tokyo)" <jens-ulrik.petersen@example.com>]

Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com> writes:

> Petersen Jens-Ulrik (NRC/Tokyo) writes:
>  > > On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, Alberto Tomita wrote:
>  > > >    http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
>  > I do hope they decide to compress the tarfile by then. :-( 
>  > Downloading 70MB by http successfully is a bit like winning a prize in
>  > the takarakuji (lottery).  Or is it supposed to be a hint to buy the
>  > cdrom??
> Apparently the files inside the tar-file are compressed because the
> whole thing becomes much larger after installation. 

Ok, I believe you.  I only managed to download 24MB of StarOffice-5.1.
The StarOffice-5.0 RPM that comes with Caldera 2.2 is under 50MB
though.  Either there have been some major additions or their
compression system is really inefficient.  I don't know, but the minor
version number might change suggest the latter.

Jens

ps Does anyone know about the Community License Sun is talking about
for the eventual source code release?
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