addendum to open office intrusion

[Norman Silverstone]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 08:38 -0800, Don W. Jenkins wrote:
> I'm sending this from my Mepis distro because of other problems with 
> Ubuntu.  After I couldn't get the download of my Word file to work 
> right, I tried to find the file on a floppy disc, which I usually carry 
> as a back up measure, but Ubuntu didn't seem to want to recognize the 
> file system on a Windows disc and it didn't like my suggestions.  I 
> didn't have time to read the man page for mount to try and figure out 
> what might please Ubuntu, so I rebooted in to something more tried and 
> true.  Does Ubuntu have any sort of automount for floppies, or at least 
> a handy front-end for making mounting more painless?  BTW, I did figure 
> out where the problem with downloading the Word files lies--in Firefox 
> itself.  I just needed to find the place to specify that I just wanted 
> those files downloaded and not opened.  Not quite willing to give up on 
> Ubuntu yet, because some other things are quite attractive, and some 
> things that are important to me are working only on Ubuntu, like a 
> console MUA.
> 
> Thanks,
> Don J.

I often use word files on floppies using Ubuntu. It really is quite
easy. Computer -> Disks -> right click on the floppy icon and click on
mount Volume. The icon of a floppy appears on the desktop, double click
and you get the files. Double clicking a word file will launch Open
Office.

Norman
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