On Thu, Jul 22, at 04:44:08PM +1200, Carl Klitscher wrote:
Oooh you're giving me far too much credit... it is actually developed and
delivered from http://www.theopencd.org and is about 290Mbs worth.
The gnuwin2 cdrom contains the same programmes and more including apache,
mysql,php,c++
Hello all
Can anyone tell me how to open documents written in MSWord ? Is
there an OS that can even open it ?
I am running Mandrake 10.
I have tried Oowriter but to no avail - it always appears as just lines
of small squares and some punctuation.
Rowan
On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 19:35, Rowan wrote:
Hello all
Can anyone tell me how to open documents written in MSWord ? Is
there an OS that can even open it ?
I am running Mandrake 10.
I have tried Oowriter but to no avail - it always appears as just lines
of small squares and some punctuation.
You might be missing some fonts. While OO will make a best effort guess at
some font equivalents sometimes things just get out of whack. quick test
would be to highlight a line or two then change the font and see if
anything appears.
Carl
Rowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/24/2004 07:35:03 PM:
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:04:15 +1200 (NZST)
Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wondering, does anyone have a spare copy of the Inside Windows
NT 4.0; Microsoft Press book I could borrow longterm, or does anyone
know anyone with such a copy?
If you're looking for an example of
Rowan wrote:
Hello all
Can anyone tell me how to open documents written in MSWord ? Is
there an OS that can even open it ?
I am running Mandrake 10.
I have tried Oowriter but to no avail - it always appears as just lines
of small squares and some punctuation.
Rowan
I've had similar problems
steve wrote:
Rowan wrote:
Hello all
Can anyone tell me how to open documents written in MSWord ? Is
there an OS that can even open it ?
I am running Mandrake 10.
I have tried Oowriter but to no avail - it always appears as just lines
of small squares and some punctuation.
Rowan
I've had
Matthew Gregan wrote:
You're both wrong. You get an F. A hardware hack of that type (POTS)
is a kluge. Check the original JARGON file, or FOLDOC.
I accept the correction and fully stand behind the kluge form.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/K/kluge.html
Thank you for your insite.
--
Quoting Rowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello all
Can anyone tell me how to open documents written in MSWord ? Is
there an OS that can even open it ?
I am running Mandrake 10.
I have tried Oowriter but to no avail - it always appears as just lines
of small squares and some punctuation.
Why not just use star office or open office?
Or strings command
Carl Sue Thompson, 2004-07-23 22:37:09:
2 Also if one purchases a PCMCIA modem which ones are recommended that
work with Mandrake 10?
Someone on this list pointed me to Mandrake's hardware database a year
or two ago - it's really handy (regardless of distro):
At 2004-07-24T23:37:39+1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/pub/dist/gentoo/distfiles/
andale32.exe
[...]
webdin32.exe
Use Wine or one of the dos emulator programs to extract the font files
from the .exe file.
The files are self-extracting CAB files. You can
A couple of days ago I had a Word document (with numerous fonts) open in
OO under linux. Most of the fonts weren't available in OO and it
successfully made all the font substitutions (though didn't look
anything like the original, which is not the point - it was viewable).
The interesting
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 17:55, Carl Sue Thompson wrote:
Am going PCMCIA card
modem because I do not want the agony to trying to get winmodem to work. I
am a simple end user who doesn't like farting round with stuff I don't
comprehend - I just want the computer to do basic things like connect to
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:35, Rowan wrote:
Hello all
Can anyone tell me how to open documents written in MSWord ? Is
there an OS that can even open it ?
I am running Mandrake 10.
I have tried Oowriter but to no avail - it always appears as just lines
of small squares and some punctuation.
On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 23:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not just use star office or open office?
Or strings command
the original poster said OO had not worked for him...that was the point!
Paul Wilkins wrote:
Matthew Gregan wrote:
You're both wrong. You get an F. A hardware hack of that type (POTS)
is a kluge. Check the original JARGON file, or FOLDOC.
You're not English are you :-).
They seem to think that they are the canonical source of the language
named after them ;-)
I
At 2004-07-25T11:50:57+1200, Zane Gilmore wrote:
I don't. I use kludge (rhymes with fudge) all the time and many of my
fellow programmers around also use it. *Therefore* it exists and is a
valid form. :-P
I use kludge sometimes too. It is a valid word, but it doesn't mean
exactly the same
We should provide these or other Linux compatible modems for sale at the
next installfest.
Cheers
Paul
Nick Rout wrote:
I am just forwarding this from the linmodems mailing list that I joined
in an effort to help out with the current modem problems. I don't know
whether the modem is available in
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