There are no text mode utilities to edit word documents simply to extract text or convert to html. There is staroffice and openoffice both X-based applications we can't use. They are resource hungry and big. If you were to put Linux on say a 300-meg partition, you could still access the remaining 6.3gb of drive as windows vfat. You'd get long filenames but no atime/ctime/mtime support. Regards, Kerry. On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 04:59:49AM +0000, Toby Fisher wrote: > On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > > > I'd dual boot the laptop between Windows and Linux > > if the drive is big enough LInux can run on as little as 300 megs of diskspace. > > Access to word documents, powerpoint slides etc is sometimes faster to do under > > Windows which is why I have 1 windows box here. > > I have considered this. I'd like to avoid it if possible, as I have huge > quantities of data that I'd like to keep on the lap top, (but if I can't, > I can't). You said that access to ord docs is faster underindos, so are > you implying that a solution does exist for Linux? > > Cheers. > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au
