[Eug-lug] help with rtf files

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On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 08:22:20AM -0700, mhough wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:22:20 -0700
> To: euglug at euglug.org
> From: mhough <mhough at pacinfo.com>
> Subject: [Eug-lug] help with rtf files
> 
> Dear folks,
> 
> I'm new to Linux and I'm having difficulty figuring out how to make an rtf 
> file created in Linux readable in Windows, and vice versa.

rtf (rich text format) has been around for many years, and many many 
text/word processing programs can work with rtf. wordpad (comes with 
windows) should work fine for rtf, so should openoffice. To make things 
easier, you could use openoffice with both windows and linux (or mac 
for that matter).	

> 
> I'm using Windows XP on a hard disk with MSWord;  Knoppix 3.2 on a CD with 
> OpenOffice;  and I want to put the rtf file on a SanDisk flash drive.   I 
> don't understand "mounting".   I don't know how to detect (or 
> control)  what drive I'm saving to in Linux.   And I don't know how to tell 
> when I need to do things (like mounting)  in Bash and when they are done 
> for me by OpenOffice.

It sounds like you dont wish to install linux on your hard drive, and 
want to run it from CDROM (could also run linux off flash drive...). The 
verion of knoppix your using is a couple years old (extra crusty...), 
you would do much better to have a more current version. If your not 
tied into using knoppix, you might be interested to know that there are 
several linux distributions that will run from the CDrom (or flash 
drive). Ubuntu seems to be the most popular at the moment, but there are 
others (DSL, knoppix, ubuntu, slackware, ...).

Jamie

> 
> Can you help?  Thank you.
> 
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