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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > I just noticed there is now a BL3.32 with
> > 'e2fsck incompatibility fixed'.
> > Does this involve just one file?
>
> No.  It was a problem with the 20mb fs.img.
> Installations to HD do not have that problem.
If I wanted to continue using the loop version of BL3, is there something 
simple I can do to it to eliminate that problem instead of reinstalling 
after redownloading?

> > The add-ons list still refers to Abiword for BL3.31
>
> That's just to remind users that AbiWord doesn't
> work with earlier versions of BL3.

How about 'or later'?

> > The ibiblio site downloaded Abiword for me at average
> > speed of 1.8K/sec on my 56K modem (11 am Thursday) with
> > actual speeds 0-4.9K.  For 5.8MB this comes to 54 minutes
> > download.
>
> As I've said before, basiclinux.com.ru is significantly
> faster for me.

Is the Russian site the one listed as 'backup copy' (second in order)?  I 
would to use 'the add-ons are stored here' unless told otherwise.
Maybe you could change the wording to something like - if one of these 
sites seems slow, try the other?  Maybe the second one is faster because 
everyone is using the first?

> > Are the clipart and all the fonts essential
> > for installing and/or using Abiword
>
> There's very little clipart (just a token amount
> to show users how to use that feature).  The font
> files are certainly big and I suppose you could
> remove all except one.  However, I don't know how
> that will affect the ability of AbiWord to handle
> MSWord documents.  I was careful to leave the font
> structure the same (although I did reduce the size
> by about a quarter) to insure AbiWord will still
> do a good job of displaying .doc files.

The BL2 version had I think 2MB clip art.  Thanks for recompiling.

Can you somehow modify things so that one font can stand in for several 
others?  I notice Arial and Helvetica are the same.  But some fonts look 
wider (more spread out) and some narrower so maybe you need them all for 
WORD.  I wish people would send text.

How much space would NLS and a couple of additional fonts for other 
charsets take up?

> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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