Open Office (Read only)

[Cyber Source]

ok, I'm not familiar with SUSE at all but a couple of things of note;
1. I read the man pages on mount and could not find an option for 
"nohide". I did find one for "unhide", maybe it's different for SUSE vs 
Fedora though. I also read that if a hidden file (that's what the unhide 
option does) shows when you have a like named file that is not hidden, 
they both won't show. I would take that option out.
2. This may be different for SUSE but in Fedora/RedHat/Mandrake there is 
a file /etc/security/console.perms that defines perms for devices, etc. 
In mine it has the line "<console>  0660 <floppy>     0660 root.floppy", 
that are self explanatory. Since this is probably being assigned the 
name "floppy" by your mount point, it may be picking up perms like 
those. You should be able to do a man 5 on console.perms.
3. I find it really odd that there is not a partition number and only 
"/dev/sda".

Just some thoughts and of course this doesn't explain why you dont have 
trouble with kword, etc. and only in OO.
  Maybe someone else can jump in on this one because in my experience 
Linux and floppies totally SUCK. I have ALWAYS had trouble with them, I 
mean I use them (only when I absolutely have to). What would have 
probably been a nice xmas present for your wife would have been a USB 
flash drive, now they ROCK in Linux.

Robert F. Stockdale IV wrote:

> /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.
>>
>> 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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