Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-29 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:17:33PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:57:08AM -0500, cecil wrote: cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-29 Thread Tom Allison
David Fokkema wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:17:33PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:57:08AM -0500, cecil wrote: cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:11:47PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:17:33PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:57:08AM -0500, cecil wrote: cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:50:20AM -0500, cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Cecil With the replies so far, I guess

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:06:51PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:50:20AM -0500, cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE

Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread cecil
I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Cecil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Cecil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread cecil
cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Cecil And on top of that, I read further, and I need to submit also a screen shot

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread cecil
cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Cecil Maybe I should get a different laptop? Is a 150 mhz machine with 2 gig hd and 32

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Paul Fraser
If you're going to be running OpenOffice.org on it, then... hell yes. :| On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:57 pm, cecil wrote: cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-06-27T08:51:50-0400, Robert L. Harris wrote: OpenOffice.org I have to write Word documents at work on a semi-daily basis for those technically impared and I've yet to have a problem where Openoffice wouldn't work. (Well, MS Project isn't covered but Excel and .doc are just great).

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-06-27T07:55:06-0500, cecil wrote: And on top of that, I read further, and I need to submit also a screen shot of the running program. Is there anyway to do all this stuff just in the console? I'm not fanatical, I can put on twm. If you really mean console, redirect, cutpaste or use

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Micha Feigin
are just great). Robert There are also several latex to rtf converters. You may lose some formating but it will open under word. Thus spake cecil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:55:06AM -0500, cecil wrote: cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Cecil And on top

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread John Hasler
cecil writes: Maybe I should get a different laptop? I would suggest that you get a different professor, and perhaps a different university as well. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:57:52PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: If you're going to be running OpenOffice.org on it, then... hell yes. :| Or you could discuss this with your prof. MS Word can open a few formats (not many - MS don't want you using anything else...), but almost certainly enough for

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Paul Smith
%% cecil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c Maybe I should get a different laptop? Is a 150 mhz machine with 2 gig c hd and 32 meg ram going to be able to do the job? I'm worried now. I seriously doubt you'll be able to run Office with that amount of RAM... and even getting it installed (with the

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Jon
Paul Smith wrote: On the other hand, Windows is an even worse resource hog than Linux, and there's NO freakin' way you'll be able to get Windows (well, maybe Windows 3.1...) to run at all on that system, much less any of the Office products. So... Oh come on. I've got an old Pentium 166 here with

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 11:00:06AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: %% cecil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c Maybe I should get a different laptop? Is a 150 mhz machine with 2 gig c hd and 32 meg ram going to be able to do the job? I'm worried now. I seriously doubt you'll be able to run Office

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:50:20AM -0500, cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Since you're already thinking about LaTeX

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:50:06 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: There are also several latex to rtf converters. You may lose some formating but it will open under word. Specifically, it tends to bork on multiple tabular environments. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread dircha
cecil wrote: cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Maybe I should get a different laptop? Is a 150 mhz machine with 2 gig hd

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Tim Wood
Don't believe all the nay sayers on the list. 6 years ago, on my first laptop, I ran Win95 and Office on a 486-DX 33 with 8MB RAM and 120MB HDD (that,s Meg not Gig). It's true that I eventually ended up using Hamm split onto the HDD and a 100Zip drive. I also have a Pentium 100 40MB RAM, 1.2GH

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:57:08AM -0500, cecil wrote: cecil wrote: I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :( Cecil Maybe I should

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client)

1996-12-07 Thread Paul F. Pearson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, I most always run Linux and rarely Windows, but in Windows I run PPP (Trumpet Winsock), Netscape, etc. Trumpet telnet sucks; uwterm is a pretty good telnet, but I'm always looking for a better one. Kermit supports all

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client)

1996-12-06 Thread Adam Shand
Of course, I most always run Linux and rarely Windows, but in Windows I run PPP (Trumpet Winsock), Netscape, etc. Trumpet telnet sucks; uwterm is a pretty good telnet, but I'm always looking for a better one. Kermit supports all kinds of network adaptors, why not winsock? The best Winsocok telnet

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client)

1996-12-06 Thread Fabien Ninoles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Adam Shand wrote: The best Winsocok telnet program I have found is SimpTerm. It's very simple but does everything I want but zmodem uploads (is does do z modem downloads over modem). It has 16 and 32 bit versions and is free. Heard

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client)

1996-12-06 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Fabien Ninoles wrote: Heard about this client... Those someone if there are a Linux equivalent of this telnet-with-zmodem client? Can be really cool. A Linux telnet-terminal (and serial too) with zmodem? I think 'ecu' does this. // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37]

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client)

1996-12-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Paul Christenson wrote: Try MS-KERMIT 3.14, you won't believe you're connecting from a DOS machine.. Looks great. Too bad it says: NOTE: MS-DOS Kermit is not a Winsock client. Why would you want to run it as a Windows app? You're using it as a

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client) (fwd)

1996-12-03 Thread Alexander LIST
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Paul Seelig wrote: This was the case with the first beta because of a failure on behalf of the developers when they compiled the release. The newer betas are corrected in this regard. So you have to buy your Motif anyway. And apart from that it's still not even worth

Re: MS WORD format

1996-12-03 Thread Nils Naumann
Hallo, Daniel Does anyone know of a document reader/editor that will read Microsoft Daniel Word format? This is something I need once a week at least. In fact, it is my only reason for windows booting. So you can imagine how desperately I sought for such a software, but no! I couldn't believe

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client) (fwd)

1996-12-03 Thread Marco Mariani
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Jerzy Kakol wrote: Server. The incredibly ancient VT-100 standard should pass to history long time ago. I would like to use a terminal emulator exactly like between two Linuxes - with comfort of bash, arrow keys, color ls and so on. So, does anybody know a DOS or Windows

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client)

1996-12-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
Marco Mariani wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Jerzy Kakol wrote: Server. The incredibly ancient VT-100 standard should pass to history long time ago. I would like to use a terminal emulator exactly like between two Linuxes - with comfort of bash, arrow keys, color ls and so on. So, does

MS WORD format

1996-12-02 Thread Daniel Stringfield
Does anyone know of a document reader/editor that will read Microsoft Word format? Someone emailed me with a MS Word file attached, and thought it would be neat to be able to read it under linux... if not, I use MS Word on my workstation at work.. -- Daniel

Re: MS WORD format

1996-12-02 Thread Jean Orloff
Daniel Does anyone know of a document reader/editor that will read Microsoft Daniel Word format? This is something I need once a week at least. In fact, it is my only reason for windows booting. So you can imagine how desperately I sought for such a software, but no! I couldn't believe it!

Re: MS WORD format

1996-12-02 Thread Alexander LIST
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Jean Orloff wrote: Daniel Does anyone know of a document reader/editor that will read Microsoft Daniel Word format? This is something I need once a week at least. In fact, it is my only reason for windows booting. So you can imagine how desperately I sought for such a

Re: MS WORD format

1996-12-02 Thread Paul Seelig
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Jean Orloff wrote: Daniel Does anyone know of a document reader/editor that will read Daniel Microsoft Word format? This is something I need once a week at least. In fact, it is my only reason for windows booting. So you can imagine how desperately I sought for such a

Re: MS WORD format

1996-12-02 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
My debian is still uninstalled, but has anyone tried Wine (Windows emulator) with Microsoft Word Viewer, available from Microsoft as a free download? Does anyone know of a document reader/editor that will read Microsoft Word format? // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client) (fwd)

1996-12-02 Thread Jerzy Kakol
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Alexander LIST wrote: Have a look at http://www.stardivision.com/. They have StarOffice 3.1, a complete office solution for different platforms, in public beta now. Noncommercial use is free AFAIK and the Wordprocessor, StarWriter, can read/write MS-Winword-6.0, _and_

Re: MS WORD format

1996-12-02 Thread Jean Orloff
Alex == Alexander LIST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Does anyone know of a document reader/editor that will read Microsoft Daniel Word format? Alex Have a look at http://www.stardivision.com/. They have StarOffice 3.1, a Alex complete office solution for different platforms, in public

Re: MS WORD format

1996-12-02 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Vatiainen Heikki wrote: My debian is still uninstalled, but has anyone tried Wine (Windows emulator) with Microsoft Word Viewer, available from Microsoft as a free download? Actually, I just d/led it, and have not had a chance to unarch it... since its a self extracting

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client) (fwd)

1996-12-02 Thread Shaya Potter
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Jerzy Kakol wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Alexander LIST wrote: Have a look at http://www.stardivision.com/. They have StarOffice 3.1, a complete office solution for different platforms, in public beta now. Noncommercial use is free AFAIK and the Wordprocessor,