On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 08:00 +1200, Perry Spiller wrote: > > Please don't post in html - send messages in plain text format > > Right - I've changed that setting at the options page. > (If it creates problems, why is it offered as an option?) ---- evidently the settings weren't the right settings - still html most mail programs allow you to choose format - plain text either on a per message basis, by 'recipient' or always. One of them is likely to work for you. If I had Eudora installed on my Windows computer, I would direct you to the settings but I don't. As for if it creates problems, why is it offered as an option? Now that I know that you read through Gustavo's stuff, you should know the answer. ---- > > > What is on the CD? > > It's a data CD with word processor files and the like. > > > What makes you think that it doesn't 'like' the CD? > > I attempted to write an Open Office file to it and got > an error message (can't remember specifically) that > gave me the clear impression it didn't like the format. > (A bit like WindozeXP and Direct CD formatting) > > I thought formatting CDs as a removable disc was > an ISO standard, but it seems not. > > > Which Fedora ? > > Core 2 > > > Please be specific about what you are doing and what you are > > expecting > > to happen. > > Suitably chastened - sorry. I had hoped I'd described enough. > > Perhaps what I want is not possible? I want a CD format that all > machines on the home office LAN can access. 2 have CDRWs. > One has CDROM. ---- writing to cd disks requires system properly configured to do that. OpenOffice and the typical application is able to write to a filesystem that is ready to be written to. A 'CD' Writing program, K3B for example can do that. DirectCD has a 'mode' on Windows that provides a 'virtual' disk for applications to write their data and then when instructed, data is written. Something probably exists for Linux to do that as well, I have always used CD-R and never bothered with CD-RW. I thought someone referred to a Gentoo patch to the kernel that allowed that but that seemed to be way too much effort to go to. ---- > > I have a Network problem, too, so, until that was solved, shifting > the data file on a CD seemed a good workaround. In hindsight, > it was small enough to use a 3.5 floppy, so I now also ask if I'm > likely to have similar unrecognised format type error messages > with those? ---- My preference would be to 'network' - sneaker net with CD-RW seems like a slow way to share files Craig
