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

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, James Miller wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 08:57:19PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> > time instead compiling USB/CDROM kernels for Christof instead, and trying
> > to get lpr to work as 'root' so I can stop putting on 150MB of Win98 on
> > computers for other people just to print with.

> You might want to take a look at the "winimize" project as well at 
> www.winimize.com . He claims to be able to get a Win98 installation into 
> as little as 7MB--though 14MB is considered a standard winimize install. 
> It involves a fair amount of fiddling with installation media and doing 
> some DOS command-line stuff. But it looks like once you go through the 
> routine once, you can make an installation that should work on any 
> IBM-compatible. Now, back to your regularly-scheduled programming . . .

Thanks, will take a look.  But our next computer may also need Excel and 
Powerpoint, for college student.  I could not find free smaller 
equivalents even for windows.  I think there is some Powerpoint reader 
like the Wordview program.

It should be possible to print as 'root' with lpr (and bloated gs, perhaps 
without the Chinese fonts).

> James