Open Office (Read only)

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

/dev/sda /media/floppy           auto            rw,auto,user,nohide  0 0

It mounts ok as the other programs have no trouble with it in rw mode.
Thank you
Bob

Cyber Source wrote:

> 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.
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> Robert F. Stockdale IV wrote:
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>> 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.
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