abiword/pathitic writer

Forum: Apps
Topic: abiword/pathitic writer
started by: VVVV

Posted by VVVV on Dec. 19 2004,19:17

Hi!

How can you save to floppy in DSL for individual documents that you might make in abiword or bluefosh or what
ever?

Simple but I really dont know! thanks again!

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 19 2004,20:15

Yes.

Insert the floppy into the drive.

Use the Mount.app in the lower right corner of the desktop. Make sure that the floppy (fd0) status is green.

Then save your file to:

/mnt/auto/floppy

Good Luck.

Posted by VVVV on Dec. 20 2004,20:42

Hi
thanks for the the tip but in pathetic writer it says 'cannot save' and in abiwod it says "mnt/auto/floppy is write protected"

do i have to log in as root? if so how do i do that?

Thanks for your time it is greatly appriciate!

Posted by VVVV on Dec. 20 2004,20:42

excuse spelling!

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 20 2004,22:14

I am assuming that your floppy disk is not full and the write-protect tab is not enabled on the disk itself.

You can run pathetic writer as user root by opening up an xterminal window and type:

sudo pw

Hopefully then you can save the files.

Posted by VVVV on Dec. 21 2004,21:49

hey thats it!! thanks
sorry to be a pain but how can i log into root for bluefish or abiword
pathitic writer is pw ect.

thanks cbagger01!!

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 22 2004,00:38

Your best way to figure this out is to open this file in a text editor:

/home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu

and find your favority program name. The command name will be displayed on the same line.

Just make sure that you don't accidentally delete this file, overwrite it, or scramble it up because then your Fluxbox "Start Menu" won't work anymore.

Posted by VVVV on Dec. 27 2004,16:37

thanks for all your help!!