>Congratulations to Tamar for writing this book! This message needs to be gotten out to the programming & user communities.
Thanks for the kind words. It was interesting writing a book for end-users rather than developers.
>What are they looking for? Hopefully just an executable.
>I've got Borland's Java Developement on another pc but it's a several years old, and I don't work with Java any more.
>Maybe I can download something from the internet.
>The install zip file is: OOo_1.1rc3_Win32Intel_Install.zip and I got it from the
http://www.OpenOffice.org web site..
First, I should say that for most of what you do with OOo, you don't need the Java Runtime Engine. I didn't get around to installing one until I was writing almost the last chapter of the book.
Yes, you need to download it if you want it.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.htmlTamar