Re: using linux in a microsoft environment

2002-01-13 Thread Ben Logan
You might find something interesting by perusing the HOWTOs. In particular, you might glean some info from the DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO. Just a thought... Ben On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:22:34PM -0500, rpjday wrote: > that's not what i'm after here. the goal is to show people how to, > using lin

Re: using linux in a microsoft environment

2002-01-13 Thread rpjday
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 simp

Re: using linux in a microsoft environment

2002-01-13 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
> 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 > "xpdf" to read PDF documents, Actually, Gnome Ghostview, or even Adobe Acrobat work a lot better > are there a

using linux in a microsoft environment

2002-01-13 Thread rpjday
something i've wanted to do for a while is write up a document listing the various ways/tools to start using linux apps in a microsoft environment. not a detailed description of every tool, just a brief paragraph or two, followed by a pointer to more info. to begin, one could list simple