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[Will Hatch <fhkms AT adelphia.net>]

I guess I have to download abiword to another computer, burn it to a cd, and 
then try to install it to my BL3 machine from the cd.  Or, I could try to 
hitch my BL3 machine up to the internet and download it directly (no clue how 
to do this). 

Steven, you mentioned that making a server and adding thin clients to it is a 
good way to use old pcs.  I'm actually beefing up the memory on our best 
computer to be a server.  I have the K12LTSP (based on Fedora Core 1), and 
I'm going to attempt to make a server/thin client network.  Experimenting 
with BL3 I figure is good practice, but I like it enough that I want to keep 
playing with it.  Again, adding a word-compatible word processor and internet 
browsing are the only features my students need.  Thanks for all the help! 
-Will
> 
> From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
> Date: 2004/06/22 Tue PM 04:12:15 EDT
> To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [BL] word processing
> 
> Will Hatch wrote:
> >
> > how do I install abiword?  
> 
> abiword.tgz is a package.  In BL1 and BL3 packages are
> installed with the pkg command:
> ---------------
> pkg abiword.tgz
> ---------------
> In BL2 (which uses the Slackware pkgtool), packages are
> installed with the installpkg command:
> ----------------------
> installpkg abiword.tgz
> ----------------------
> 
> > I downloaded the file.  do I have to use rawrite 
> > to write it to a floppy?  
> 
> abiword.tgz is 7mb in size.  Fitting it on a floppy 
> will not be easy.  :-)
> 
> BTW, abiword.tgz doubles in size when it is installed.
> It won't fit in the default fs.img for BL3.  
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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