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[Will Hatch <fhkms AT adelphia.net>]

Thanks Sindi.  I did install BL3, so I'm out of luck there.  I can't even 
figure out how to use the floppy drive in BL3.  what I would like to do is: 
have the same basic xwindow that I have in this version of BL3, only when I 
right click and find the menu, i'd like the word processor to be there, that 
is word compatible (hopefully!)
> 
> From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
> Date: 2004/06/22 Tue PM 03:24:30 EDT
> To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: Re: [BL] word processing
> 
> If you got the abiword package from Steven's add-on site for BL2 (which is 
> for BL2, not BL3) you type installpkg followed by the name of that package 
> (which is a slackware package and ends in .tgz), while in the same 
> directory as the package (or else you need to specify its location - for 
> instance installpkg /tmp/packagename.tgz).   I don't think this BL2 
> package will work with BL3.  
> 
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Will Hatch wrote:
> 
> > how do I install abiword?  I downloaded the file.  do I have to use 
> > rawrite to write it to a floppy?  I'm lost. -Will
> > > 
> > > From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
> > > Date: 2004/06/22 Tue PM 01:46:59 EDT
> > > To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > > Subject: Re: [BL] word processing
> > > 
> > > Several linux wordprocessors can produce RTF format, which can be 
> > > imported
> > > by WORD.  I have tried Ted (I did not like it, slow and requires a mouse
> > > for everything) and another that is buggy.  People say Abiword is good. 
> > >  
> > > Abiword uses wvware to import WORD files.  I use antiword to read WORD
> > > files - it can convert to text or ps format.  I compiled it and a few
> > > other things for BL2 not BL3.  Since you have the space and memory, you
> > > could install BL2 to hard drive and have a larger selection of 
> > > precompiled
> > > programs.  I know Abiword is available at Steven's site, for BL2 - don't
> > > know about BL3.
> > > 
> > > What web browser are you interested in?  There was a lot of discussion
> > > about those here a while back.  If you need javascript, I suggest Opera
> > > (Opera 7 requires the glibc from Slackware 8.1, and cannot be used with
> > > BL3 but can with BL2 if you update glibc to 2.2.5).  Opera 6 works with
> > > the BL2 glibc but does not work well (it kept unloading itself in my
> > > case).  Try 6.05.  Other people like Mozilla type browsers.
> > > 
> > > Netscape 3 should work on BL3 but is rather out of date. For BL3, Lynx
> > > 2.8.4 (?) is available from SW4.  Links-ssl works - Steven might have a
> > > link to it at his add-on page.  There is a static version of links2
> > > (graphical) at JP's website which might work for BL3.
> > > 
> > > You can also use BL3 to telnet to my bbs (www.grex.org) and use lynx 
> > > 2.8.4 
> > > there for free (at variable connection speeds sometimes as high as 16 
> > > K/sec download, about twice a 56K modem connection).  No graphics.  Or 
> > > try 
> > > sdf.lonestar.org for something similar (pay $1).  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Will Hatch wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Thanks for the advice on installing to hard drive everyone.  I have 
> > > > BL3
> > > > running on my Dell optiplex GN+. My next step, install a better word
> > > > processor.  Is there one that works with BL3 that is word compatible? 
> > > > I
> > > > am a teacher and would love to set up a small network that has word
> > > > processing, and a web browser, and nothing else!  Thanks. -Will
> > > > 
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