On Monday 23 July 2001 18:14, Brian Williams wrote:
> I had trouble sending 2 messages to the mailing list last week (host
> unreachable), but I shall try them again now.
> ----------------------
>
> Hi All.
> We are mainly a windows workplace, and hence I always get "MSoffice"
> email attachments. I use mozilla for mail, because then I can use it
> whether I am running linux (generally with win4lin), or straight windows.
>
> But for office docs attached to emails, running under windows is more
> convenient because I can open the attachment directly from mozilla mail.
> I want to get as close as possible to that with linux/win4lin (without
> running under windows, otherwise I might as well just not use linux at
> all).
>
> Currently I have to save the attachment to a directory in linux, then
> swap to win4lin, find the file and open it. I would like to streamline
> this a bit.
>
> The best idea I have at present is to have an rsh daemon running on
> windows. Then, configure mozilla action for msoffice mime types to save
> the file, and run an rsh command which will open the file in the wanted
> application in windows. Then I just swap to the windows screen where the
> document is already open. I really only want this for office apps, but I
> guess the method is configurable for other files too.
>
> I have found a freeware windows95 rshd that seems to meet my needs. One
> annoyance that I have is that mozilla saves the file to the temp
> directory with a really screwed up name. When I get to windows, I often
> modify the file and want to save it back into a similar but slightly
> altered name from the original, which I don't readily have.
>
> Anyone else have any suggestions, or alternative ways to work
> /brian
> P.S Don't send msoffice docs via email is not a useful suggestion ;-).
>
Try StarOffice or KOffice. As far as I know, they can both open MS Word
documents.
You may find StarOffice a bit bloated if you have a low-end computer, but
otherwise, I'd go with it. It's not open source, but it is free. You can
download it from sun.com.
KOffice is part of the KDE set of programs. You can get it (if it's not
already included in your Linux distribution, which it probably is if you're
running Win4Lin) from www.kde.org.
I hope this helps.
Tony
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