On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:16:48 +1000 "john rigby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snippage> > Even Civilme (the resident expert on the Newbie list) THOUGHT he was > putting me in my place by telling me that in some Govt Dept they had > some typistes*actually* using Linux and olde Star Office. BUT then went > on and said they were *using* WorpdPerfect! (Sigh) A separate and quite > expensive product(but very good) except that nobody I know outside of > Civilme has ever got it to go on and work! ===================================== Nonsense!! I'm no geek..., just an OK user. Out of sheer curiosity, I intalled Mandrake 5.3 on one of our lab computers back in April of 1999 (I think?). I had NEVER used linux before. It installed OK (despite not fully supporting our S3 video card). I downloaded WordPerfect 8.0 for linux and got it successfully installed LONG before I understood anything about tar/configure, etc., etc. How? I *read* and *FOLLOWED* the directions. First try, I got it to work and even borrowed a fellow teacher's floppy (had to learn the mount comand real quick ;o) ) and opened her WordPerfect for Windows files flawlessly. AND printed them on an old HPDeskJet 695c. Lucky, I suppose, but I credit it to *reading* carefully and following the directions. I went on to loading Caldera 2.2 onto a Toshiba notebook w/o any problem and have since used a variety of distros on a variety of computers: desktops/server/and several notebooks.================================> I believe you really need a Geek to get you online.=============================== Nope! Got home home computer and a notebook (that old Toshiba) hooked up with an external modem on the very first try. I just followed the directions <shrug>. At work, my ethernet card has ALWAYS been automagically configured (I wouldn't have had a clue!!) and worked immediately, even with that old Mandrake 5.3 version!!!<snippage> Cheers, Mike -- "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - Frank Zappa _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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