Accessing Windows XP programs in Ubuntu (was Re: The pest again)

[Jeffrey Needle]

> > It's a proprietary format -- the app is called GospeLink.  It's a
> > Mormon-based information center with access to hundreds of printed
> > works, and just invaluable.
> 
> Then bug them about releasing it in an open format. Didn't we already
> fight a war about locking up religious texts in a format that hardly
> anyone understood?
> 

We've been after them for a long time.  They don't even have a good
Mac-based system. Linux, to them, is in another universe.

> >> > I'm old enough to know that, if you're dumb about things, as I am,
> >> > you may as well ask...<grin>
> >>
> >> LOL! You're in the right place. And the only dumb thing would be to
> >> suffer in silence, or to give up and go back to Windows not knowing
> >> any better.
> >> --
> >
> > Ha!  Sure enough.
> >
> > Incidentally, I typed /etc/fstab and got a message "Permission denied."
> > Do I need to place something else after the command to make it work?
> > Very exciting to think I might be able to access GospeLink again!
> 
> /etc/fstab is an information file, not an executable. try "cat /etc/fstab"
> 
> "mount" is the command to mount a new filesystem.
> 

Got it.  Now, how do I mount the c:\ drive on my Windows system?  The
executable that accesses the CD-ROM is on the c:\ drive.



> cheers
> stuart
> 
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Jeffrey Needle
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