> (Still no luck running OpenOffice, though. The 'soffice' command, which is
> supposed to perform a setup the first time it runs, aborts saying "ulimit:
> error setting limit"... I wonder if this problem is related to Java or,
> maybe, the Linux emulation layer. I also have my share of doubts towards the
> "alpha" version of the OpenOffice I am dealing with. If anybody has
> experienced this problem in the past, I'd appreciate letting me know the
> possible way out...)

The ulimit is Java's problem.
You should set ulimit in your shell. See man page of you shell how to do
that. 

example (for tcsh):
limit datasize 254000

jj