Open Office (Read only)

[Cyber Source]

What is in the fstab file for the usb drive? That is where it will 
determine how the drive gets mounted and the data therein.

Robert F. Stockdale IV wrote:

> My wife has a word document on a floppy. If it is loaded in kword or 
> Abiword it loads incorrectly (formatting is all screwed up) but it 
> loads in Read/Write mode. If we load it in OpenOffice it loads 
> correctly but in Read only mode. If I copy files to a temp directory 
> off her home directory OO will load them r/w and then I must copy the 
> new files back. How can I get OO to open the files from the floppy in 
> r/w mode so my wife can do this all herself. She is lost at the 
> command line and I'm not always available to copy files for her. Other 
> programs have no trouble opening in rw mode from floppy. They just 
> can't get the formatting correct.
> We're running Suse 9.1 on an HP Athlon notebook with a Teac usb 
> external floppy.