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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Will Hatch wrote:

> 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).

I forgot to mention that Steven also include a small DOS utility for 
splitting up large files, split.exe, I think it was in BL2.  Is it also 
provided with BL3, or at a BL site?  You could split up a 7M file into 
pieces that fit on 5 floppy disks, copy them, and reassemble.  Steven, 
please provide the details on this.  I could not figure out how to use 
this program, but I found rzsplit (larger) that I did get working once.  

split was used to make a 2-floppy BL2 version, since baslinux.gz got too 
large for one floppy disk.


> 
> 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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