[K12OSN] LTSP access to floppy disks; accents in filenames
light being
lighthumor at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 31 14:03:25 UTC 2005
Does anyone know of some other setup than mtoolsFM for terminals, that
confuses users less?
Is there a trick for fixing the problems with accents in filenames? Make
the linux charset the same as in windows?
Is openoffice 2.0 more compatible with msoffice documents?
I'm in a cybercafe - many people come, floppy disk in hand, to open a resume
-a Word document- edit it, and email it.
People can´t figure out how to use MtoolsFM GUI - they need help. It´s too
different from what happens in wintel-land for them, they get confused.
Yes, newbie users.
I can put the diskette into the server - making it available on all
terminals.
There are problems with filenames with accents in them, files can't be
opened, read, copied, or something. (We´re in brazil; filenames often get
accents on wintel boxes here - e.g. 'currículo-maria.doc' or 'sãopaulo.xls')
Floppy disks invariably can´t be read - or worse, can be read on some
computers, others not.
People can´t figure out how to do what they want in openoffice - or it
sometimes isn't entirely compatible it seems, paragraphs, accents, graphic
objects in files move to different places, etc....
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