On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:20:47PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Raven, corporate courtesan thought:
> Yup. [grimace] After my third assurance to our new management
> that I didn't need an NT desktop in addition to my Sparc (and once
> actually refusing to accept one they delivered anyway),
I'd have blown away the disk, installed Linux and, when asked why, explain
that I thought I might as well do something *useful* with it...
> Next time, I'm going to rename them all to ATMErrors.txt,
> BGPPrimer.txt, etc. He didn't realize that he could open plaintext
> files with Notepad. "Right click . . . now pick 'Open With...' and
> choose Notepad." Gak. Or I'll just convert them to .docs in
> StarOffice.
Don't bother converting to .doc Just rename then to .doc and M$ word will
open them as text. Better still, rename them ti .wri and wordpad will
open them and IIRC will monospace the chars and spaces so they look just
like they do in vi
Conor
PS. I got a treat today at work. One of the IT Seniors (He used to be
the MS admin) in conversation with me made reference to "non-linux OS's".
It just feels nice. :-)
PPS. Another colleague, looking at my linux-only box with staroffice running,
said "OOOHH! Can I deal with word docs and excel spreadsheets and run my
marine wave model without rebooting?" Another convert (well, she's been
*nixing for years but can now hand back her M$ CDs).
--
Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Domestic Sysadmin :-)
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