From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from joana.gotss.net ([203.53.231.66] ident=mail) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16hPJg-0008S9-00 for ; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 01:17:53 -0500 Received: from kerry by joana.gotss.net with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16hPJi-000351-00 for ; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 14:17:54 +0800 Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:17:54 +0800 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Speakup installation on lap top. Message-ID: <20020303141754.A11834@joana.gotss.net> References: <20020303115156.A11653@joana.gotss.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from toby_fisher@bigfoot.com on Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 04:59:49AM +0000 From: Kerry Hoath Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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@g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry@gotss.net kerry@gotss.eu.org or kerry@gotss.spice.net.au