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[sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>]

Sorry I still cannot respond to baslinux mails as they did not subscribe
me yet.

I did find antiword at the add-on page. I somehow missed that link before. 
But the readme.txt file does not describe it.  Which version is this?  The
latest one is 0.34 and it does Word 2002.  Thanks for including Opera and
Lynx there, Steven.   I compiled 0.34 but it did not install any
documentation.  If you have 0.33 I will try to make a .tgz package of 34.

Thanks for explaining how to set the mouse to com3 but I think the symlink
you gave us is for console mode, or will it also work in X?  We don't use
a mouse in console mode.  Your BL2-X setup only offers Com1 or Com2 for
the mouse.  Our modems are difficult to jumper so if we get them set to
Com2 we leave them that way and we put the mouse on Com1.  We now have a
couple of aliases for using photopc (camera downloadp program) on Com3
which include the switch to specify the non-default serial port. 

I will remove the line specifying the symlink for photopc from wherever I
put it (rc.S?) since it does not need to be run everytime I boot.  This is
starting to make sense again.

When rpm.tgz did not work (it generates a 128 byte file) I installed JP's
mini-mc and mc-menu and when I tried to convert antiword.rpm with mc-menu
it told me there were errors in this package and not to try converting it.
Mini-mc works nicely except when it tries to view an html file with lynx I
get an error message. I have lynx as an alias for lynx-ssl.

I installed man2html (from man.tgz) and can view man pages by first using
gunzip and then man2html file.1 > file.html and then lynx file.html.  I
should learn to write an alias for the whole process - do I substitute %s
for the file name?  alias man='man2html %s > file.html|lynx' after first
going to where the man file is located and gunzipping it?  Can I make
gunzip part of the alias or do I write a separate script file  put it on
the path after doing chmode +x on it?

Name the following file viewman:

gunzip %s
man2html %s.1 > %s.html
lynx %s.html

I probably have this all wrong. At one point I thought I had something
working but things started scrolling by very fast and sort of crashed.  I
did not take good notes. 

I know I can install 8M of files in order to use man properly but this way
I can learn something instead (and save space). 

Thanks very much for all the help, Steven.  

Sindi Keesan