It's the Quattro Pro spreadsheet. I assumed that either Open Office under Linux, or Excel under Windoze would convert and open it. There was nothing at Corel's site, but maybe I can find something on a Linux mirror somewhere. I've tried this trial download (178MB) four times now. Each time I'm saving it to H: but it first puts it into C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Local Settings\Temp\ and never quite finishes the download before it fails because "There is not enough room on the disk." The disk (partition) actually had 299MB of free space. I seem to vaguely recall this problem, but I don't even care to research it at this point. As you said, Wanshard, "I have no idea."

Boy, am I missing the simple little things in life, like, highlight with the left mouse button and paste with the center button.

One last chance for Billy's crippled OS imitation to d/l the file, and then I'll boot into Slack and get it. Update: It did it...finally...

Windoze, how many ways do I loath thee? Let me count the ways......

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gnumeric has a quattro pro import filter.
the gnome spreadsheet, if you didn't know.

I've got Gnumeric version 1.2.0 that came with Slackware 9.1 and just opened the .qpw document. All it gave me is one cell (A1) of some unintelligible data ->
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I wonder how that's going to show up in other web pages ;>) I'll start looking around to see how to work that filter. Thanks!

I opened her document in the trial version of Quattro Pro that came with WPO in Winders and it looked really good. Then I printed it, and then saved it with a .xls extension, since I knew that one opens in Open Office. Then (praise God!) I booted into Slack (man, it's good to be back home :) and opened the .xls document. However, I lost all the dates - they show up as ### in the table, but in the input line field they are correct. The names and amounts are readable, but I notice that she used Arial, and I haven't loaded any Winders fonts into OO - yet. Man, I got tons of work to do in Slack, and I'm lovin' it!

Well, when I open it and tell Gnumeric it's a Quattro Pro file, it says

Why not just have her re-send it in a different
version? :)


Cheers,
Tink

My request:Her response to my request:This is almost verbatim the same communication we had in January
of last year, concerning the same situation. And she now informs me
concerning a PGP encrypted fileAnother thing on my Linux list - figure out how to use my PGP keys
in Linux so I don't have to boot into...

I'd think that if you export the private key in
windows you should be able to use it with/
import it into GnuPG ... which is what I'm using
here... integrated in KMail :)


Cheers,
Tink

http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/s...ntjan13-04.htm

a friend of mine was just arrested last month in china. can you get
him out? is there anything you can do without getting yourself in
trouble?

he had me call him Tak so i wouldn't have try to speak a Japanese name
correctly. i hope he just gets banned from China or something like that.
i played tennis with a few of his friends in college a lot. he didn't really
play, so he would just hang out and watch.

you'll probably need to learn to patch a kernel eventually. so here you go.
let's say that kernel 2.4.24 comes out, or maybe it already has. i haven't looked. you have your kernel source in /usr/src/linux and it's version 2.4.23. instead of downloading the whole new kernel source, you can just download the upgrade patch, such as patch-2.4.24.bz2.
say you put that patch in your /usr/src directory, then run
bzip2 -cd patch-2.4.24.bz2 | patch -d linux -p1
then it does it's magic, and your source is upgraded.
suppose you also have the ck patches and wish to apply a few of them.
bzip2 -cd 010-ckbase.diff.bz2 | patch -d linux -p1
bzip2 -cd 011-readlatency2.diff.bz2|patch -d linux -p1
and so on, until you are done, then configure and compile your kernel and modules.
but now, since you have somewhat custom kernel source, you cannot apply the later patch for kernel patch-2.4.25.bz2 because your source does not completely match the source it is expecting, because of the ck patches you applied.

I can't even email you.

If someone searches this post for answers I hope you read this last post. I never did recompile the kernel back then, but did last week. CONFIG_BLK_STATS was left out of the new kernel and it still didn't return any output when issuing
# fdisk -l
without a device name.

I've moved drives and totally redone the system -- getting ready for the Slack reinstall today, and then later will compile 2.4.26 and when I find out what actually caused the problem, I'll post to both these threads I've started. I think it's somewhere in what Tink posted...

my friend Tak was sentenced to 8 months in prison, and with time served, will be released on Aug. 9. My birthday. i was worried he would be be in jail much longer.

Sorry to hear that. Lost you email address, if you'd like
to chat about it feel free to mail me...

Well guys, I finally laid this one to rest. It's the devfs kernel option that kills fdisk. i had had this problem a year ago and found no answer and saw this thread also. devfs completely changes the format of the info in /proc/partitions and fdisk (nor 'probe') can't parse it.
Recompile kernel without devfs support to fix fdisk.

Gilbert is totally right. When you compile the kernel, in the section
# File systems
you must have
# CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set
to fix this problem.