On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:44:27 -0400 (EDT)
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> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Larry Sword wrote:
> 
> > I can confirm your findings. You are not alone. Now to find out why?

Ok now to try again... first time I sent something it went into the
great bit bucket in the sky.  I had a similar problem with an earlier
version.  What I found was the OOo was looking for /dev/cdrom  and I had
/dev/scd0 as my cd.  So I went to /dev and did "ln -s
scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd cdrom"  without the quotes the
scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd is actually what scd0 links to on my
box.  The result.... I could open things from the cdrom without hassle. 

James

(actually this cured my problem with several programs.)


> > 
> > Larry
> > 
> > 
> > Rick Friedman wrote:
> > > I was just wondering if anyone can confirm this for me? Using
> > > OpenOffice 1.0, I cannot read in a file (doc, txt, whatever).
> > > OpenOffice starts to access the CD and then it just stops. I have
> > > two drives. One is a CD-RW drive and the other is a DVD. They are
> > > setup as/dev/scd0 & /dev/scd1 respectively. I don't know if that
> > > has anything to do with it. I don't know why it would.
> > > 
> > > Anyway, this isn't really a problem for me... more of an
> > > observation. I was just curious if anyone else can reproduce this?
> > > Or is it specific to my machine for some reason?
> 
> If you copy the files to a writeable directory, can you access them?
> What if you chmod -w the directory so that you can't write to it?
> > > 
> 
> 
> 

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