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Otto Werner wrote:
>
> I resorted to putting BL1 with X and icewm on my old laptop. 
> BL3 and lilo did not work together. 

BL3 works fine with lilo (in fact the floppy version
of BL3 uses lilo to boot).  The problem is:  lilo is 
tricky to configure and unforgiving of mistakes.  
That's why I recommend newbies use loadlin instead
of lilo.

> my wife wants an wordprocessor she is used to.
> But:486SX+8MB-Ram+740MBHD+monodisplay=abiword 
> is not usable.  Any other possibilities ? 

Wordperfect 8 runs on BL1 (but not BL2 or BL3).  
It is still available for download.  It comes as
a big package with a built-in installation routine.  
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http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/WordPerfect-Linux-FAQ/downloadwp8.html
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To get it to work, you will also need to install 
some foundation packages from Slackware 3.5.

Cheers,
Steven

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