Subject: Re: restricting users to a floppy?
From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Jan 06 2002 - 03:30:59 CST
> I'm trying to set up a linux computer in a student computer
> lab and would like to use Abiword as the main word
> processor. It would be really nice if the students could
> be restricted to saving their files on floppy disks so they
> won't junk up the hard drive with their personal files. Is
> there any way to accomplish this? It might be enough to
> set the default directory for saving files to /mnt/floppy/
> but I don't see any way to do this in the preferences. Is
> there a command line switch that can be used to change the
> default?
One possibility is, perhaps, to start AbiWord witha a command like:
(cd /mnt/floppy; abiword)
No idea whether this will work, though.
Regards, Frank
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and
wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.
--- Philip Roth
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