Re: open documents

albi (onderste@casema.net)
Mon, 24 May 1999 18:05:10 +0200


On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:19:10AM +0000, mek@antenna.nl wrote:

hello mek,

long time no sea ;-)

> just ran into a strange thnig. I was buzzy bringing all my m$ word
> documents into the linuxSuSE6.1-partition to work my works there. i
> saved them as rtf-text on a floppy, opened them in linux with
> abiword, and saved them as abiword-document. after having done this,
> wich kosted me a few hours, i wanted to work glad as a dog, finally

A few hours ? 8-)
you really should learn to use the commandline-stuff ;-)
... like I told you before, no bashing intended.

> on abiword... but the docs where just opened in de normal window
> (??know what i mean?)

nope :-(

> and there was no possibility to choose "open

"open with" is a KDE-feature I guess ?

> with..." has this maybe to do with suse?

no, possibly not.

did you save your abi-textfiles with the extension .abw ?

For example like the following files do :

[albi@onderste:~/.ABIWORD/AbiWord_CVS_170599/abi/test/wp]$ ls -la
total 99
drwxrwxr-x 3 albi albi 1024 May 17 22:00 .
drwxrwxr-x 4 albi albi 1024 May 17 22:00 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 albi albi 3071 Jan 26 21:16 Bazaar.abw
-rw-rw-r-- 1 albi albi 6218 Feb 9 18:41 BillOfRights.abw

There's a way to let .abw as a file-extension be opened by AbiWord as default
in KDE, (which I forgot or never used) maybe it's a nice question for you to
ask in the linux-newbie-list ?

Good luck, have fun!

-- 
- greetings, Albert -
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