Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

From: David Fokkema (dfokkema_at_ileos.nl)
Date: 06/29/04

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    Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:11:47 +0200
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    On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:17:33PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
    > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:57:08AM -0500, cecil wrote:
    > > cecil wrote:
    > >
    > > >I just looked on the upcoming syllubus for my CS class. The prof
    > > >requires ms word format zipped files for the assignments. What do I do
    > > >to do that on linux? I guess I HAVE to install X now. :(
    > > >
    > > >Cecil
    > > >
    > > >
    > > Maybe I should get a different laptop? Is a 150 mhz machine with 2 gig
    > > hd and 32 meg ram going to be able to do the job? I'm worried now.
    > >
    >
    > Hi Cecil,
    > I have a libretto 110: p1-166 32mb ram, 10gb (up from 2gb). I have X
    > with windowmaker running with mozilla-fire$PICK_ONE. Its not a speed
    > deamon but it works. Sounds like you'll be doing non-gui progamming
    > anyway unless this is some upper level class. most beginning classes in
    > pascal,fortran,c,c++, etc. use stdout, not gui stuff. At most, the
    > program may use a generic gui output method to simulate a console.
    > Maybe you teacher will ok you submitting a text file dump and not the
    > fancy screen shot.

    And if you _really_ want a window manager that looks like you're
    operating on the console apart from graphical output from time to time,
    use ion (or ion-devel). I used that on my old laptop when I was tired of
    waiting for gnome etc. and didn't want to be distracted from my thesis
    work at all. If I _did_ want to be distracted, I used windowmaker with
    some nice dockapps. Looks just fine!

    David 

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