On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > > to begin, one could list simple things like mtools to > > access dos floppies, > > You don't need mtools for that. You only need mtools for accessing them > when they aren't mounted
um, i know. but for windows folks, using mtools is a simpler solution if you don't want to teach them about mounting and unmounting, and the mtools commands are conveniently similar to the corresponding windows commands. > > "xpdf" to read PDF documents, > Actually, Gnome Ghostview, or even Adobe Acrobat work a lot better and they would be listed as well. i wasn't trying to be exhaustive, just trying to give people an idea of what i was trying to do. > > > are there any good sites/articles out there along this > > vein? this is just the kind of document that would interest > > a number of my clients. and if i can't find docs just like > > this, then i guess i'll just have to write one. :-) > > I'll try to pull up some pointers for you. An even better document would > be listing things you can only do really well in Linux. that's not what i'm after here. the goal is to show people how to, using linux, do the same things they're used to doing in windows. if it turns out to be even easier/better in linux, that's a bonus. rday _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
