And don't forget NANO, a new editor a lot like PICO. But as for me, I often use UltraEdit to edit stuff in my Cygwin directories. At 01:14 PM 12/16/01 -0000, you wrote: >Hi > >If I understand you correctly, no you can't run the installation program in >the same way as if you were to do a complete install. But hold on, what is >it you want to do? You want to see your long filenames that have been >produced under Windows? What for? What are your expectations? You'd be >better off in spending some time reading up on how to use one of the many >editors. Now everyone has their favourite and I can't remember which ones >you have in ZipSpeak. If your goal is to use any Unix type systems, you'd >better look at one of the vi clones, such as, vim and Elvis. There's an >excellent tutorial on the vi home page. Emacs is very popular and there are >a couple of versions of this one too, such as, memacs. Again there's a >tutorial that is easy to follow. Emacs has the advantage in that you could >use it as a speech option as in emacspeak. Pico and Joe are little editors >which are similar to Edit and Word Star Windows editors. Having said which, >none of these will be useful to edit Word Processed documents that have been >produced under Windows. But you'll need to be able to edit scripts and >profiles etc. It's what using Linux is all about, being able to tune the >system to meet your needs. > >HTH >-----Original Message----- >From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com >[mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Michael Malver >Sent: 15 December 2001 15:39 >To: blinux-list@redhat.com >Subject: installing inux was re: RE: Mounting Dos Partition on Bootup > > >I want to run linux on my drive, which already has windows on it. I had >trouble getting it to recognise my win95 filenames because I used the >zipslack install, and didn't understand how to edit stuff. Is there a way >to do a talking install of linux so I will be prompted for everything, and >configured properly, but without repartitioning my drive? >I guess what I'm asking is is there a way to unzip zipslack, but ten somehow >run the linux install program, so that it will re set itself up and allow me >to taylor it to my system, but not make me change anything about the way my >system currently behaves? >I hope this questin makes sense. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com >[mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Tony Baechler >Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 12:46 AM >To: blinux-list@redhat.com >Subject: Re: Mounting Dos Partition on Bootup > > >Hi. You probably got tons of answers but here goes anyway. The short >answer is to read the man page on /etc/fstab and make sure to use fat32 for >Win 9x, otherwise long filenames will not show up. If you are using >Slackware, you are prompted for this during installation and it sets things >up automatically. The way I did it was to make a directory called /win. I >had subdirectories for all my drives under /win, like /win/c, /win/d, >etc. I had to fiddle with /etc/fstab a few times before I got it right and >found the syntax confusing, but it was great once it worked. Braille is the solution to the digital divide. Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer National Library Service f/t Blind and Physically Handicapped Library of Congress (202) 707-0535 <lras@loc.gov> <http://www.loc.gov/nls> HOME: <lras@sprynet.com> <http://lras.home.sprynet.com>