[Gvsig_english] table

[Chris Puttick]

Ahh, I forget the glacial slowness of IT management in local government bureaucracies...

OO3 (been out for nearly 6 months!) would probably do it - maybe you should try OpenOffice portable?

http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable

Although I thought there was no practical limit in Base, only in Calc?

Chris

----- "Wolfgang Qual" <wolfgang.qual at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hello Chris,
> oh yes. We have installed Openoffice on our Desktop computers. I used
> OOo 
> several times for editing dbf-tables, but I often ran into problems:
> The 
> table could not be stored sometimes, sometimes, it was even not
> possible to 
> open a dbf-table. After selecting the character encoding OOo says: not
> 
> possible to connect to table. I am using OpenOffice 2.3. AND: Calc can
> only 
> handle tables with less than 32.000 rows. As many of our datasets are
> bigger 
> than this limit, calc is not (yet) an option for me. Sad but true ;(
> 
> Best,
> Wolfgang
> 
> -----
> Am Dienstag 17 Februar 2009 09:29:37 schrieb Chris Puttick:
> > And of course there is always OpenOffice, which runs on most any
> platform
> > :)
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > ----- "pvmstg hotmail pop" <pvmstg at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Wolfgang,
> > >
> > > I support your request.  When shapefile are done, many work can
> still
> > >
> > > have to be managed in table.  For me I use and external base. 
> Like
> > > dbfplus http://www.alexnolan.net/software/dbf.htm (for window only
> but
> > >
> > > I use it on mac easely with wine "code weaver").
> > >
> > > Also, developper we starve for having the roadmap for the gv_sig 2
> and
> > >
> > > after.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Marcel
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