openoffice.org combining file problem

[Robert Locke]

On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 21:38 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 09:22:04PM -0400, Robert Locke wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Just added a bugzilla report for this but was wondering if anyone here
> > knew of a workaround or not....
> > 
> > My problem is that I need to be able to take a spreadsheet and embed it
> > into a text document.  Under FC3, all worked great with
> > Insert-Object-OLE Object-Existing File from inside openoffice.org
> > writer.  But now under FC4, and, of course, the beta of openoffice.org
> > 2, it appears to have been broken.
> > 
> > I am running the current updates-released versions openoffice.org-writer
> > 1.9.112-1.1.0.fc4.....
> > 
> > Any suggestions on how to get around it?
> 
> Have you checked to see if this is a known OpenOffice.org bug?
> 
> Perhaps a more recent RPM package from OpenOffice.org will fix it.
> 
> Failing that, try falling back to 1.1.4 and see if that fixes it. I
> run 1.1.4 and 1.1.109 together on two FC3 machines here, and have no
> problems.
> 

Actually, this turns out to be a file selector bug....  When "choosing"
the file, it puts a pair of "//" at the beginning of the filename....
If I simply remove one of the "/", life is great....

--Rob