Hi :)
No.  Err i am not sure where to start as there is so much wrong with Brian's 
last post.  

1.  People are not dim just because they are not as skilled with computers as 
you.  People may be exceptionally gifted, perhaps even a genius at many things 
but still not understand the one area of knowledge you think of as the most 
important.  

2.  There are some people in the world that have machines with Windows 
installed where it wasn't me that did the install!  I know that might be 
difficult to believe! lol.  Lately i have bumped into or tried sharing files 
with quite a few people that "can't open zip files".  A couple of times i have 
been allowed to look at the machine in question and seen that the only problem 
is that somehow file associations have vanished or perhaps were never set-up 
right.  This happens so often that i didn't even know there is some default app 
in Xp but there are a lot of simple archive managers to choose from and 
installing one is a quick&easy way to grab all the relevant file-types so that 
they can all be opened.  

I have even seen a couple of machines that couldn't even read gifs despite 
having several MS programs for viewing pictures.  Again a pre-existing 
condition of particular logins on a couple of machines.  

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Tue, 20/3/12, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote:

From: Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Urgent Base problem
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 20 March, 2012, 9:36

At 08:56 20/03/2012 +0000, Tom Davies wrote:
> I've known quite a few people using Xp that couldn't open zipped files and 
> needed help installing an archive manager.

Do you mean you know dim people and advise them wrongly?  Er, maybe suggest 
they just double-click the .zip file?

Brian Barker


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