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Hello Wayne - 

WC>> As long as I can save in an MSWord and W.P. convertable
WC>> format I'm happy. 

CA>> I've fiddled with other OS, not just Windows/DOS/Linux,
CA>> and tend to favor plain text files for that reason -
CA>> maximum readability regardless of the OS/app doing the
CA>> reading. :-) 

WC> Sure, I like plain text but HTML is a close second for me
WC> with modern operating systems. 

WC> Most browsers save and read saved HTML just fine and I can
WC> use them in either 98 or Linux. 

HTML is the preferred format when you want to save all the
links to 'other' information embedded within the text. If your
primary source for text is the Internet then saving HTML pages
makes some sense if there are many links to other pages. Saving
text from FIDO echos, for instance, does not require HTML
formatted files. :-) 

WC> PDF, bleck. HTML is as portible a document file as I need. 

WC> Seems Open Office saves in .doc format as well so Abiword
WC> is no big deal now. 

The options of StarOffice, OpenOffice, AbiWord, and others is a
personal decision based on the user interface more than any
other factor would be my guess. 

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WC>>> The syntax for telnet transfers is going to take some
WC>>> research on my part. I've seen references to a BSD -
WC>>> Linux hack of ztelnet but as yet no download link. 

I will look to see if I have the ztelnet source code here. 

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WC>> Less, use the Knoppix root GUI image file creation and
WC>> compression utility :-) Found I could have installed
WC>> Knoppix as a compressed image the size of the CD and saved
WC>> configurations to either FAT 32 or a small Linux native
WC>> partition as well. 

CA>> Loopback? 

WC> Not a clue yet only glanced at it. Haven't been able to
WC> find the imagining utility again since I removed some
WC> desktop icons as root user. The boot image from disk option
WC> is in the dialog knx-hdinstall script as an option. 

Interesting. 

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CA>> Interesting thing about how Linux software is 'reveiewed'
CA>> is that even after admitting they hardly ever use it they
CA>> say it is 'powerful'. All Linux software is either 'fast'
CA>> or 'powerful'. I wonder if this is really true and
CA>> compared to what? 

WC> Once I've got a handle on this I may hack it down somewhat
WC> drastically. 

What I've done in the past with W31 was to archive anything I
thought I didn't need and move it to a directory called
"offload". As this directory began to grow I would review what
was in there, delete what I was certain I would never want,
then copy the rest to floppies (today I burn to CDs).
Occasionally I would uncompress the archive back into the
system and give it one more try before deciding to keep it or
get rid of it. :-) 

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